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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday rejected the plan of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint a panel of experts to look into alleged rights abuses in the island nation's civil war,...

A spokesperson for the US State Department said Friday that the Obama administration opposes a vote before the full House of Representatives on a resolution branding the World War I-era...

The Fiji High Court sentenced eight men to prison terms ranging from three to seven years for plotting the assassination of the leader of the country's military government on Friday. The sentencing judge, Justice Paul Madigan chastised the men...

US lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would require the military interrogation and trial of those taken into US custody who are suspected of links to terrorism. The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010...

Canadian Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced Friday that a former Supreme Court of Canada judge will review documents detailing Canadian forces' treatment of Afghan detainees before the documents are released to Parliament . Nicholson...

White House advisers are considering recommending that accused 9/11 co-conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be tried in a military court rather than through the civilian criminal justice system, according to Friday reports. The Washington Post...

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) announced on Friday the creation of a working group of rights experts to monitor the support offered to disabled Haitians as they attempt to...

French prosecutors on Friday filed preliminary terrorism charges against the suspected leader of the Basque separatist group ETA , along with two other people who are believed to be senior members of the group. A...

The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Thursday that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will eventually face justice in The Hague. Speaking in London before the British House of...