Information redacted from a British High Court decision released last week has been withheld from US President Barack Obama and may hold key information about British involvement in the alleged torture of Guantanamo...

An Egyptian military court on Wednesday sentenced an Islamist opposition leader to two years in prison for illegally entering Gaza. Magdy Ahmed Hussein, leader of the Labor Party , was arrested last month on suspicion of...

Tibetan courts have convicted 76 people involved in the March 2008 Lhasa riots , according to official remarks on Tuesday by vice-president of the Tibet regional People's Congress Nyima Cering. The high...

Lawyers for Omar Khadr presented a plan Wednesday to return the Guantanamo Bay detainee to Canadian society. The outline, laid out at a news conference in Toronto, calls...

The Kenyan Parliament on Tuesday delayed voting on a constitutional amendment that would create a special tribunal for the country, following allegations by MP Gitobu Imanyara that government officials tried to bribe or blackmail MPs...

The Central Jakarta District Court on Wednesday dismissed a corruption lawsuit against Hutomo Mandala Putra , son of former Indonesian President Haji Mohammed Suharto . The suit against Putra, also known as "Tommy Suharto," had...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir must cooperate with any indictment or decision the International Criminal Court (ICC) may issue against him, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday. On...

A bill has been introduced into the US House of Representatives that would end the ban on travel by US residents to Cuba. The Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act, introduced last week by Representative William...

US State Department spokesperson Robert Wood on Tuesday defended the silence of the US delegates during the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of potential rights abuses, saying that...

Taliban insurgents on Wednesday targeted the Afghan Ministry of Justice , the Prisons Directorate and other government buildings in coordinated attacks in the capital city of Kabul. Early estimates reported 28 killed and more than...