The administration of US President Barack Obama will appeal a ruling made last week by Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia that allowed detainees being held by the...

The US Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denied Friday the emergency stay of deportation filed by accused Nazi prison camp guard John Demjanjuk . In March, a Munich district court charged ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday refused a petition for an en banc rehearing by former Ukranian prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko , who had been on...

A New York state appeals court ruled Thursday that a same-sex partner lacks standing to assert parental rights over the biological child of her partner unless she has adopted the child. The ruling limits parental rights under...

Advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Uganda to end what it said was the use of torture and unlawful arrest  by the country's Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force (JATT). According to HRW, JATT...

Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced Friday that he was suspending  the country's constitution , and revoking the appointment of all judicial officers, after the Fiji Court of Appeal on Thursday ruled  his appointment of military officer Commodore...

CIA director Leon Panetta on Thursday outlined new techniques to be employed by the agency in their detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists. The new policies include discontinuing the use of contractors to conduct interrogations...

The US has been slow to conduct habeas corpus hearings for Guantanamo Bay detainees despite a June 2008 US Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush mandating prompt hearings, Amnesty International (AI)  said...

The Bolivian National Congress approved Thursday the general framework of the electoral law that the new Bolivian constitution mandated within 60 days of its adoption. Earlier...

A jury of US Marines acquitted Sgt. Ryan Weemer Thursday of one count of murder and one count of dereliction of duty for his involvement in the shooting death of a detained Iraqi insurgent during a...