Russian officials with the Office of the Prosecutor-General have formally denied a British extradition request for Andrei Lugovoy on the grounds that the Russian constitution forbids the extradition of its...
Judges for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) entered pleas of not guilty on behalf of Bosnian Serb war crimes indictee Zdravko Tolimir Tuesday, after Tolimir refused...
East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta has said that he will ask the Court of Appeal to issue an advisory opinion on whether an amnesty law passed by East Timor's National Parliament last month is...
US District Judge Lewis Kaplan indicated Monday that he may reconsider a 2006 ruling in which he threatened to dismiss all charges in an ongoing criminal tax shelters case against former employees of the accounting...
Missouri Governor Matt Blunt Monday announced the signing of a bill intended to protect the identities of individuals who provide direct support for the administration of the death penalty, formally prohibiting the...
Kurdish security forces "routinely torture and deny basic due process to detainees" in northern Iraq, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report found that the Asayish security...
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) formally suspended the trial against former Liberian President Charles Taylor Monday, ordering the prosecution to resume its case on August...
Lawyers for former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky filed a lawsuit Monday against Russian deputy chief prosecutor Viktor Grin and prosecutor Salavat Karimov, alleging that the two officials are ignoring a March court order [JURIST...
The Multinational Force-Iraq (MNF-I) announced Monday that US Army Sgt. Evan Vela has been charged with premeditated murder, obstruction of justice, wrongfully placing weapons with the remains of deceased Iraqis, and making a false official...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Monday unanimously denied a motion by former US vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to delay his prison sentence...
