A resolution introduced Monday in the US Senate by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) to censure President Bush over domestic spying received only lukewarm approval from Feingold's fellow Democrats, preventing a floor vote...
Belarus authorities in Minsk Monday sentenced fifteen opposition activists to short jail terms as part of the government's latest effort to suppress opposition before Sunday's presidential elections. According to human rights monitors, the activists were not...
The controversial UK Identity Cards Bill will go back to the House of Lords on Wednesday after Prime Minister Tony Blair's governing Labour Party won a critical...
A member of the elite Special Air Service special forces of the British Army who refused to return to Iraq and later left British military service said in an interview published in the UK...
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi called Italy's judiciary the disease of our democracy in a weekend TV interview, promising changes to the judicial system as he himself faces the possibility of a new trial before...
UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke is expected to propose legislation that would allow the use of wiretap evidence in British courtrooms, specifically in cases of organized crime and terrorism, according to British press reports Tuesday. The...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Monday that her cabinet had approved a new bill to jump-start the biggest constitutional reform in Germany since 1949. The bill is meant...
UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke protested the failure of the United States to ratify the latest US-UK extradition treaty , ratified by the UK parliament in 2003, at a meeting Monday...
At a hearing in Washington Thursday US District Judge Gladys Kessler questioned the treatment of Mohammed Bawazir, a former hunger striker at Guantanamo Bay eventually force-fed in treatment his lawyers say was torture contrary...
Italian Justice Minister Roberto Castelli has accused Milan prosecutors of unlawfully pressuring him to request the extradition from the US of 22 CIA agents allegedly responsible for the 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition [JURIST...
