A coalition of civil rights groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Bush administration's warrantless domestic spying program . In the ACLU lawsuit [fact sheet;...
Four Cambodian civil rights leaders arrested on defamation charges were unexpectedly granted bail and released from jail Tuesday. Leaders from the Cambodian Center for Human Rights , along with a journalist and union leader were released...
Lawyers for a group of Chinese Uighur detainees being held by the US at Guantanamo Bay plan to ask the US Supreme Court to hear an appeal of last month's District Court ruling authorizing their continued detention....
Pentagon records made public Thursday by the ACLU through ongoing FOIA requests show that the US Army closed a criminal investigation of abuse allegations by an Iraqi detainee last year without...
Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is ailing and may have only weeks to live, lawyer Badia Aref said Thursday, claiming his client is suffering from high blood pressure, cannot walk properly, and is being given...
Iran on Friday threatened to block inspections of its nuclear facilities if the UN Security Council confronts it over its nuclear activities. Iran has been voluntarily allowing short-notice International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ...
US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Thursday dismissed the final remaining property damage claim against New York City stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks . Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services Ltd. and five other insurers for...
Argentine judge Jorge Urso has decided to send accused Bosnian Serb war criminal Milan Lukic, arrested in Buenos Aires in August, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague for trial,...
The 23-member Santiago Appeals Court Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling granting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bail, but at the same time stripped him of immunity an additional human rights case,...
Spanish authorities have charged former Argentine naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo with genocide for his involvement in the disappearance of hundreds of people during a 1976 Argentine military coup. Papers published Wednesday allege that between 20,000 and...
