The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday sentenced former Rwandan Armed Forces Colonel Tharcisse Renzaho to life imprisonment after convicting him of crimes in connection with the 1994...

A former CIA counter-terrorism agent alleges that top al Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded prior to the issuance of legal memos justifying the practice, the BBC reported ...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor on Tuesday denied war crimes allegations while testifying for the first time at his trial in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) . Taylor faces...

The UK House of Lords on Monday approved a measure to create an independent commissioner for terrorism suspects, which must now go before the House of Commons. The Lords voted 145-103 on an amendment to the Coroners...

Members of Congress on Monday called for an investigation into a secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program designed to kill al Qaeda members. The call follows the recently publicized information that former vice-president Dick Cheney directly ordered ...

Former US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel lawyer John Yoo Monday declared his intent to appeal a lower court ruling allowing a lawsuit against him alleging complicity in...

The corruption trial of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori opened Monday with Fujimori confessing to having paid former Peruvian Intelligence Director Vladimiro Montesino $15 million to resign in 2000, but denying any...

Costa Rica v. Nicaragua, International Court of Justice, July 13, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has...

US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Monday told the Senate Judiciary Committee during confirmation hearings that she would bring to the Court a judicial philosophy rooted in...

Myanmar is processing grants of amnesty to prisoners to allow them to participate in the 2010 general elections, ambassador U Than Swe told the UN Security Council on Monday. Additionally, Swe maintained...