Ugandan opposition leader and presidential challenger Dr. Kizza Besigye , released on bail by the Ugandan High Court Monday, has declared that President Yoweri Museveni should face charges for treason committed during the 1998-2003...
A Chilean appeals court on Monday allowed ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet to post bail for six of the nine human rights charges he faces relating to Operation Colombo . Pinochet...
US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has promised to push for major changes in the United Nations in an interview published Monday in the Washington Post, including reforms to the international body's human rights panel. Bolton...
French President Jacques Chirac on Monday said that he plans to officially end France's state of emergency on Wednesday. The status of heightened security and increased police powers, implemented in November...
Iraqi Special Tribunal Chief Justice Rizgar Mohammed Amin on Wednesday adjourned proceedings in the Saddam Hussein trial until December 21 in order to avoid holding hearings during the upcoming parliamentary elections. The court held...
A series of not guilty verdicts returned by a federal jury Tuesday for former Florida professor Sami Al-Arian on terrorism charges is being called a major defeat for law enforcement officials. Al-Arian...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England concerning whether the state of New Hampshire...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced Haradin Bala to 13 years in prison Wednesday for torture, cruel treatment and murder at a prison camp run by the Kosovo Liberation Army [BBC...
A German court has charged three Iraqi German residents with conspiring to kill former Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and membership in a terrorist organization, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. German authorities arrested all...
The UN's World Summit on the Information Society opened Wednesday in Tunisia as participants reached an 11th-hour agreement on a draft declaration which will leave the US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...
