UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on the government of Sri Lanka to conduct a "proper investigation" of any "credible allegations of violations of humanitarian law" arising from the recent conflict between...

US journalists Laura Ling and Seung-eun Lee were sentenced on Monday in North Korea's Pyongyang Central Court to 12 years in labor camps . The journalists were arrested in March for allegedly...

Two groups of petitioners filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court Saturday to stop the sale of Chrysler Group assets to Italian automaker Fiat . The first group, consisting of three Indiana...

Several senior officials working in the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Bush administration sought to limit uses of so-called enhanced interrogation tactics but broadly agreed on the legality of the tactics, according...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Friday approved the sale of most of the assets of Chrysler Group to Italian automaker Fiat , but said the deal could...

Internal e-mails, US Department of Justice, made public June 6, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Internal DOJ e-mails...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld on Friday the 2007 conviction of former Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale for the...

Britain's High Court of Justice ruled Friday that military veterans involved in nuclear tests have the right to sue the Ministry of Defense (MOD) for injuries resulting from exposure to radiation. The tests...

Amnesty International (AI) urged the UN Security Council to establish an international body to conduct an inquiry into war crimes allegedly committed in Sri Lanka , and to press the Sri Lankan government...

The Canadian government on Thursday refused a US request to accept Chinese Uighur Muslims from Guantanamo Bay . A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper affirmed that the Canadian government is not willing...