An Iranian official with the country's Supreme National Security Council said Saturday that a potential UN Security Council resolution imposing new sanctions on Iran in connection with its nuclear activities would be "legally and technically baseless," according...
Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba urged the US Friday to adopt preventive measures to stop further crimes by American troops in Japan. The warning comes after a US Marine was arrested last week for allegedly...
Former Rwandan Minister of Youth and Sports Callixte Nzabonimana was arrested Monday in Tanzania on charges relating to Rwanda's 1994 genocide, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) said Tuesday. Nzabonimana...
US District Judge Larry Burns sentenced former US defense contractor Brent Wilkes to 12 years in federal prison Tuesday for bribing now-former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham in exchange for almost $90 million...
Lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui said their client's guilty plea and life prison sentence should be overturned because his constitutional rights were violated, according to court papers released Friday. The 207-page brief filed in the US Court...
Pakistani officials on Friday arrested a fifth suspect for his alleged involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto . Police described the suspect, Abdul Rasheed, as an important member of the conspiracy...
US Senate Democrats announced their continued support Tuesday for a US Sentencing Commission decision to give retroactive effect to sentencing guidelines that would narrow the disparity between sentences for offenses involving powder and crack cocaine,...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said Friday that waterboarding is clearly torture, echoing comments Wednesday by UN Special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak ,...
A former Senior Advisor for Legislative Framework in the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office set to depart from the US embassy in Baghdad after a year-long posting told US Ambassador Ryan Crocker in a memo obtained...
Myanmar continues to arrest and detain human rights activists, denying them fair trials in accordance with international principles, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro [official profile; JURIST news...
