Colonel James Pohl, the military judge presiding over the trial of suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , on Monday ordered a mental health examination for the defendant to determine whether he is competent to stand...

UN Special Rapporteur on North Korea Marzuki Darusman has urged the UN Human Rights Council and General Assembly to investigate human rights violations in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In a report...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released report on Tuesday detailing numerous war crimes committed by the rebel group 23 March Movement (M23) and Congolese military forces during M23's occupation of Goma in the...

The Supreme Court of the Philippines on Tuesday has again stopped the government from enforcing a cybercrimes law passed last year. The law was also suspended for 120 days in October so...

A Somali court on Tuesday sentenced a woman who accused Somali security forces of rape to a year in prison for insulting a government body and making false claims. The same court in Mogadishu also sentenced freelance...

The Arkansas House of Representatives on Monday approved a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. With a 75-20 vote the bill will now advance to the state Senate, which last week passed a...

NBC News on Monday released a Department of Justice (DOJ) confidential "white paper" that reveals details of the legal justifications for the Obama administration's unprecedented use of lethal drone strikes [JURIST...

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Tuesday handed down its second verdict, sentencing Abdul Quader Mollah, leader of the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) , to life in prison. This sentence...

A military judge on Monday refused to halt further hearings in the 2000 USS Cole bombing trial. The chief US military judge at Guantanamo Bay Colonel James Pohl held that the defense attorney failed to...

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee signed an ordinance on Sunday imposing stricter penalties for rape. The ordinance, which was passed by the Union Cabinet on Friday , will be tabled before the parliament within...