The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) began the war crimes trial of two former Serb paramilitary commanders Monday. Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic are charged with murder, persecution, forced...
US House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) Monday threatened to seek subpoenas to compel three current and former administration officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft , to testify about a recently released Department...
Top members of Pakistan's government coalition have met to continue their discussion of proposals for restoring judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf last year after he declared emergency rule , according to Monday media reports. The...
The UN Security Council should push the US to address human rights concerns over policies governing detainees held by US-led coalition forces in Iraq, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a Monday letter to...
Spain's National Court on Monday ruled that former Argentinean President Isabel Peron would not be extradited to face charges in Argentina related to her alleged role in "Dirty War" disappearances before she left office in 1976. The...
Kenyan military forces tortured over 4,000 suspected rebels in a recent crackdown against the Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF), according to a report released Monday by human rights group Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) . The group accused soldiers...
Zimbabwean lawyers Monday appealed for the release of several hundred opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) members detained after police raids on Friday, saying that the the MDC members were being held in defiance of...
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday overturned a lower court ruling dismissing an antitrust class action lawsuit against a group of banks that require credit cardholders to use arbitration...
Over 3,000 prison inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses have had their sentences reduced under an amendment to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines , according to a study released Thursday by the US Sentencing Commission ....
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Friday that it has transferred a former Bosnian Croat leader who was convicted of war crimes related to the torture and persecutions...
