Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Muhammad said Thursday that he had been tortured after United States authorities transported him to a Moroccan prison for interrogation. Muhammad is a suspected al Qaeda member and is charged with conspiring...
Serbia has promised to deliver fugitive Bosnian war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia by the end of April, according to a...
Nineteen-year-old Canadian Omar Khadr refused to take part in military commission proceedings during a pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday, claiming that he was mistreated and sent to...
The Council of Europe on Wednesday repeated its calls that Russia officially abolish the death penalty . There have been no executions in Russia for over ten years as the result of a moratorium imposed...
Massachusetts lawmakers have approved a sweeping health care plan that would require all residents to have health coverage or face penalties. Massachusetts is the first state to approve a health insurance reform [IssueSource...
US District Judge Jeremy Fogel has authorized lawyers to obtain information on executioners at San Quentin Prison, but has banned the release of any details about them to the public. Lawyers for convicted murderer and death row...
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor met with several potential defense lawyers after he pleaded not guilty Monday to 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday called on states to ratify the 1997 anti-personnel mine ban treaty and said that it should only take ten years to rid the world of all land mines will take...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for the United Nations to reduce the number of reports it produces each year as part of his ongoing UN reform agenda first announced...
Manfred Nowak , the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture , has said that he is certain that the United States has secret detention facilities in Europe and has demanded access to the facilities....
