Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) announced Sunday that it had issued four arrest warrants for the leaders of the Islamist group Jamaat e Islami (JI) for crimes committed during 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War . The ICT was established...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Monday that the Afghan War Diaries , a compilation of 91,000 documents leaked to the organization on the US war effort in Afghanistan, may provide evidence of war crimes committed by...

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Monday handed down its first conviction in the case of former Khmer Rouge official Kaing Guek Eav [case...

The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that a Federal Court decision calling for the government to protect the rights of Omar Khadr while in US custody overstepped judicial...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday stated his willingness to consider changes to a law that allows the military to interfere in domestic matters. Article 35 of Turkish Armed Forces Services Law, which...

Israel will likely not cooperate with a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) investigation to look into an Israeli military raid of a flotilla in Gaza that took place at the end of May. While the Israeli government...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona on Friday granted a preliminary injunction against an amendment to an Arizona law regarding health benefits for the families...

The Amsterdam District Court on Friday fined oil trading company Trafigura 1 million euros (USD $1.28 million) for shipping hazardous waste to the Netherlands and illegally exporting the waste to the...

A Honduran judge on Friday dropped two abuse of power charges against ousted leader Manuel Zelaya . Judge Humberto Palacios dismissed the charges because of the amnesty granted to those involved...

A wireless communications industry group filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a San Francisco ordinance requiring disclosure of cellular phone radiation emission levels. The complaint, filed by CTIA in the US District Court for the Northern...