Thousands of activists protested in Japan on Sunday in opposition to efforts to amend the country's pacifist constitution . Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, drafted during the American occupation of Japan after World War II,...
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities entered into force Saturday, one month after Ecuador became the 20th country to ratify the treaty . The landmark UN disability rights treaty [JURIST...
The number of surveillance and search warrants approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) increased again in 2007 to a record 2,370 warrants, according to a report released Wednesday by the US Department of...
The US Justice Department will share internal legal opinions authorizing the use of harsh interrogation tactics with members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Deputy Assistant Attorney General John P. Elwood told a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary...
US District Judge Beverly Martin on Wednesday rejected a challenge to Georgia's lethal injection protocol, ruling that the state's execution procedures were similar to Kentucky's method, determined by the Supreme Court to be constitutional . Convicted murderer Jack...
US military judge Navy Capt. Keith Allred Wednesday set down terms under which Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan can question suspected al Qaeda leaders currently in US custody at Guantanamo as part of...
A New York appeals court has upheld a jury's finding that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was negligent in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by Islamic...
The trial of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and seven co-defendants began at the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad on Tuesday. Aziz, deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein's regime, and...
The International Criminal Court on Tuesday made public an arrest warrant for Bosco Ntaganda, who is accused of committing war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The arrest warrant...
The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand Indiana's controversial voter identification statute , which requires voters to present photo identification as a prerequisite to voting. The decision comes in Crawford...
