Alabama Governor Robert Bentley on Thursday called a special legislative session to discuss changes to the state's tough immigration law . The move comes one day after state lawmakers gave final...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday blocked a portion of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which allows for the indefinite detention of...

An Afghan detainee who was handed over to authorities in Afghanistan by UK forces won permission on Wednesday to challenge the legality of the transfer. Before the High Court of Justice in London, Serdar Mohammed claimed that he had...

The trial of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic began Wednesday in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) but was postponed indefinitely on Thursday due to allegations...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor asked Wednesday to be sentenced with an eye toward "reconciliation, not retribution." Speaking during a sentencing hearing before the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone...

Amnesty International (AI) urged the Sudanese government on Tuesday to stop its alleged press censorship. AI reports that Sudanese authorities have on several occasions seized newspapers from the printing press. Additionally, a prominent columnist, Faisal...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday awarded victims' families over $300 million dollars in damages from the governments of Syria and Iran for their roles in an...

Mali is facing its worst human rights crisis since it gained independence in 1960, Amnesty International (AI) reported Wednesday. In a report , "Mali: Five months of crisis, armed rebellion and military coup," AI...

Mass arrests and incommunicado detentions persist at Camp Honor, a prison in Iraq's capital Baghdad that the Iraqi government promised to close last year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) , reported Tuesday. According to HRW, the...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday denied petitions by book publishers and Apple to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging that...