Prosecutors at the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) urged the judge Friday to wait to commence the trial in absentia of four Hezbollah members indicted for killing former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri [BBC...

A US military court on Thursday convicted an army squad commander of three counts of premeditated murder for leading a "kill team" in Afghanistan that targeted unarmed civilians and collected body parts as war trophies. While three of...

The Ugandan High Court on Thursday sentenced a man to 30 years in prison for beating to death prominent gay rights activist David Kato. Enock Nsubuga confessed to the January 2011 killing, admitting to beating Kato [Reuters...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the Tunisian government not to extradite former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi , warning that he would be "at a real risk for torture"...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday released a partially redacted opinion in Latif v. Obama, overturning the release order for Yemeni Guantanamo detainee Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif...

Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader pleaded not guilty on Thursday to taking bribes worth €10 million from Hungarian energy group MOL in exchange for allowing MOL a dominant position in Croatia's oil and gas group...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) , marking the first time a Congressional group has voted to repeal the law banning same-sex marriage. The vote...

A Brazilian federal court ruled Wednesday that work on a dam being constructed on the Xingu River in the Amazon jungle may continue. The Federal Court of the First Region had ordered...

The Supreme Court of Israel on Thursday upheld the rape conviction of former Israeli president Moshe Katsav . The court rejected Katsav's appeal of his conviction for rape, sexual abuse and sexual...

Mexican security forces have committed widespread rights abuses , such as torture and forced disappearances, in combating organized crime, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report, "Neither Rights...