The International Criminal Court (ICC) requested Monday that Kenya arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir when he visits the country later this week. Al-Bashir faces seven counts of war crimes and...

The Republic of Azerbaijan must free its imprisoned journalists and repeal its criminal defamation laws , Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Tuesday. In its 94-page report, entitled "Beaten, Blacklisted, and Behind...

A group of Spanish police officers went on trial Tuesday for the alleged torture of two ETA activists in Basque. The alleged victims, Igor Portu and Mattin Sarasola, were convicted and sentenced to 1,040...

The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the dismissal of 18 criminal cases in Riverside County because there were not enough judges available to hear the cases. The Superior Court of Riverside County, a California...

Somalia was once again ranked the most corrupt country by Transparency International (TI) in its 2010 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released Tuesday. The CPI measures the abuse of entrusted power for private gain...

The UK Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Scottish police can no longer question a suspect in custody without the presence of a lawyer. The court found that the previous law, which permitted interrogation of suspects...

Former Iraqi foreign minister and deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein , Tariq Aziz , was sentenced to death Tuesday by the Iraqi High Criminal Court . The...

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a request Monday for documents regarding the detention and treatment of prisoners being held at Bagram Air Base ...

Digital security company Gemalto announced Monday that it has filed a lawsuit against HTC, Samsung Electronics, Motorola and Google , as well as some of those companies' US subsidiaries, based on the...

The Ontario Superior Court on Monday sentenced Fahim Ahmad , the leader of the Toronto 18 , to 16 years in prison for his role in the terrorist organization. During the...