Australia's Federal Court has agreed to hold a hearing next week to consider a petition filed Wednesday by lawyers for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . Hicks' lawyers have asked the court...
Lawyers for several Chinese detainees still held at Guantanamo Bay have filed a lawsuit in US federal court seeking their release due to the flawed process by which they were determined to be enemy combatants. The...
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigrants convicted of conduct that is a felony under state law but is only a misdemeanor under the Controlled Substance Act are not subject to deportation under...
Wire services are reporting that US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton has resigned, effective at the end of his recess appointment. President Bush named Bolton to the position on an...
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud Friday reiterated his rejection of the Lebanese cabinet's approval of a measure that would establish a UN-supported international tribunal to try suspects accused of assassinating former...
Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has denied reports that it has shut down operations due to lack of funding , with a spokesperson telling the Voice of America Thursday that...
An appeals chamber at the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia Thursday sentenced a former Bosnian Serb Army general to life imprisonment for leading troops in attacks against civilians during the 1992-1994...
The UN Human Rights Council agreed Thursday to hold a special session to look into human rights abuses committed in the Darfur region of Sudan. The rights body, established earlier this year...
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court urged the court Tuesday to confirm war crimes charges against Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga . Lubanga, founder of the militant Union of Patriotic...
Many European countries were aware that the US Central Intelligence Agency operated secret prisons or used their territory for the transfer of terror suspects, according to a report released Tuesday by a European Parliament...
