The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Turkish authorities violated European human rights laws in shutting down four newspapers accused of publishing propaganda for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) . The daily...

INTERPOL announced Thursday that Rwandan genocide suspect Emmanuel Uwayezu has been arrested in Italy. The former Rwandan clergyman had long been sought by Rwandan authorities in connection with the killings of approximately 80 Gikongoro province...

Lithuanian lawmakers on Wednesday demanded an investigation into allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established a secret prison for al Qaeda suspects in the Baltic country. The Lithuanian...

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Thursday announced his intention to boycott the opening of his war crimes trial, set to come before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on...

The Cambodian National Assembly approved legislation Wednesday banning demonstrations of more than 200 people. The bill, which passed Cambodia's lower house by a vote of 76-25, would also ban any gathering inside or...

Two Guantanamo Bay military judges on Wednesday granted continuances for prosecutors in the cases of two Sudanese detainees allegedly involved with al Qaeda. Noor Uthman Mohammed , who is accused of working...

The Kuwaiti Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that a 1962 law requiring a woman's male guardian to grant her permission to obtain a passport is unconstitutional. The court found that the article in the Personal Status Law...

Guinean Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandre Cece Loua said during a visit to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Wednesday that the Guinean judiciary is capable of and intends to investigate and prosecute any...

Two courts in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality sentenced six individuals to death on Tuesday for their connections with organized crime gangs. The First Intermediate People's Court sentenced two gang leaders to death and two other members to...

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany rejected appeals by alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk on Wednesday, setting the stage for his trial to begin next month. The rejected appeals...