Lawyers for the US Department of Justice defended the six-year detention of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uighur Muslim, at Guantanamo Bay in oral arguments before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit...
Tibetan courts will swiftly prosecute demonstrators involved in protests against Chinese rule in Tibet last month, according to Friday state media reports. A top Tibet official was quoted as saying that over 1,000 protesters will face prosecution...
The detention of five prominent members of the Hindu Rights Action Force is proper because they are a threat to national security, Malaysian Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail told the country's Federal Court Thursday. Gani...
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius Thursday signed legislation that bans protests within 150 feet of a funeral one hour before, during and two hours after the end of a service. The Kansas funeral privacy act [PDF...
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution Friday condemning the military government of Myanmar for ongoing systematic violations of human rights and people's fundamental freedoms. The European Union expressed...
Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (D) was released from federal prison Friday after a federal appeals court ruled that he was not a flight risk while his appeal of his fraud and bribery conviction...
A criminal network may have been responsible for the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , the UN International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) said Friday. In a press briefing [recorded...
US military prosecutors Friday dropped all charges against a US Marine charged in connection with the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in November 2005. Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum had...
Hundreds of Bangladesh veterans who took part in the 1971 War of Independence issued a call Friday for war crimes trials against those Bangladeshis who assisted Pakistani forces in the war. Veterans and commanders from the...
Ousted Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has characterized Pakistan's February parliamentary elections which resulted in the victory of opposition parties now joined in a coalition government as a popular verdict in favor of the country's...
