UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Monday in a BBC radio interview that the UK has found no evidence that the US transported terror detainees via UK airports, despite a UK newspaper report...
In a 6-0 vote, the California Supreme Court late Sunday refused to halt the execution of co-founder Crips gang co-founder and convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams . Williams was convicted of killing four people during two...
Proceedings in the Saddam Hussein trial continued Wednesday without the former president in the courtroom, after Hussein promised not to return to an "unjust court". There was a delay in proceedings Wednesday...
On the final day of Egypt's legislative elections , police beat back female voters with sticks when they tried to enter a blocked-off polling station in the Nasiriyah district of Zagazig, a stronghold of banned political group...
Bruce Gordon , president and chief executive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Tuesday urged that death row inmate and convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams ...
Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was questioned Tuesday by Federal Judge Claudio Pavez, who is investigating the killing of an army colonel, Gerardo Hube, who has been linked to a 1992 illegal arms sale....
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Wednesday that the US has changed its policy on the interrogations of detainees, and will impose a worldwide ban on US personnel subjecting prisoners to cruelty, citing obligations under...
Former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma was charged with rape Tuesday in Johannesburg Magistrate's Court and was freed on 20,000 rand bail until the case opens on February 13, 2006. A family friend who viewed Zuma...
China on Tuesday denied the findings of UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak who, after a two-week visit to China, criticized the country for the widespread torture and abuse of prisoners....
The US held eleven captured al Qaeda suspects at two secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe until media reports exposing the existence of the prisons shut down the facilities last month, ABC News reported Monday. The prisoners...
