The US Senate on Thursday confirmed Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan as Solicitor General by a vote of 61-31. Kagan, the first woman to hold the office, faced...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that it would conduct an internal investigation into reports that Israeli soldiers have committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians. The announcement follows soldiers' reports of civilian killings and...

The Chinese government on Friday detained a former soldier who has called for an investigation into the 1989 killings of pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square . Chinese human rights organization Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch (CRLW) [official website,...

Iranian blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi reportedly committed suicide Wednesday after serving one month of a 30-month prison sentence for insulting Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei . Both the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHR)...

A judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in an order made public Thursday that defense contractor CACI International is not immune from a lawsuit brought by...

Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav was indicted Thursday on two counts of rape for allegedly assaulting several female employees in the 1990s. The indictment, which was filed in Tel Aviv District Court, charges [Jerusalem...

The government of Pakistan President Ali Asif Zardari and his Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday, asking the court to review its...

US Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters Wednesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will consider accepting in the US the 17 Uighur Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared for release....

A spokesperson for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Wednesday that the DOJ will limit prison restrictions on John Walker Lindh , a California man known as the "American Taliban." Lindh is...

The UK will publish the guidance it gives to intelligence officers for questioning suspects overseas, Prime Minister Gordon Brown told parliament in a written statement Wednesday. Restating the UK's unequivocal condemnation of torture, Brown said that...