A panel of EU judges on Friday declined a request from US officials to extradite Kosovo terror suspect Bajram Asllani. Nicholas Hawton, a spokesperson for the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) , stated that the...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday ordered the State Department to reconsider the status of the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) ....

The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday appealed an order to release accused Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo . The order was issued on Thursday...

A UK High Court of Justice on Friday allowed a lawsuit to proceed that seeks to force the UK government to hold a public inquiry into torture allegations made following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The...

New York Governor David Paterson (D) signed a bill Friday prohibiting the retention of personal information of individuals detained New York City police during a "stop and frisk" but ultimately not charged with a crime....

A UK crown court on Friday ordered five companies to pay £9.5 million in damages relating to the 2005 Buncefield oil storage depot explosion , which has been described as the most costly industrial...

The Tribunal of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ruled Friday that the farmers who lost their land under Zimbabwe's land reform program may take their case to the SADC summit meeting...

The lawyer for US geologist Xue Feng announced Friday that Xue has appealed his conviction for selling state secrets, arguing that the information to which he had access did not include protected information. Xue was convicted earlier...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday criticized the human rights record of Syrian President Bashar al-Asad , claiming he has made virtually no progress on rights despite repeated promises for reform. In a report,...

The Russian State Duma on Friday voted 354 to 96 to approve legislation that would allow the country's secret police, the Federal Security Service (FSB) , to question citizens about their actions related to...