Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser has accused the Australian government of pursuing laws that would reverse "centuries of advances" in human rights and the protection of individual liberties against state power. Fraser, who has previously spoken...

UK rights group Liberty has threatened to take legal action against the British government and senior police officers unless they agree to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency has operated "torture...

Bangladesh police on Wednesday detained 22 suspects in the latest round of suicide bombings outside courthouses around the country. Nine people died and over 65 were wounded when two bombs detonated Tuesday, in what police and lawyers...

Ecuador's new Supreme Court justices are set to be sworn in during a ceremony in front of the international monitors that oversaw their selection. The 31-justice court has been without permanent members since last December,...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has dismissed as "nonsense" allegations by former Iraqi Prime Minister and current parliamentary candidate Iyad Allawi that human rights abuses by Iraqi Shiites are as bad as they were...

Over 100 Ugandan lawyers went on strike Monday to show displeasure with the Ugandan Attorney General and his involvement in possible military attempts to influence the trial of opposition leader Kizza Besigye . The Ugandan Law Society ...

AP is reporting that a federal jury has found Ahmed Omar Abu Ali guilty of joining al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush . Abu Ali was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2003 and...

AP is reporting that "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla has been indicted on criminal charges. Padilla has been in US custody for over three years on allegations that he was involved in an al Qaeda plot...

Paul Bisengimana, former mayor of the Rwandan town Gikoro, pleaded guilty Thursday before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on charges related to the country's 1994 genocide . Bisengimana was initially charged with genocide,...

Lawyers from the US Department of Justice recommended that the department reject Georgia's new voter-identification law , but were overruled by higher-ranking DOJ officials, according to documents obtained by the Washington Post. Four of five staff...