Indonesia's Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled that the country's constitution allows the firing-squad execution of three men sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings . The three members of the...

The Bolivian National Congress Tuesday ratified proposed reforms to the country's constitution, paving the way for a national referendum on the changes on January 25, 2009. Bolivian President Evo Morales [official...

Human Rights Watch on Monday accused the Sudanese government of using a special prosecutor as "window dressing" to thwart an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation of war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region [JURIST...

Amnesty International and the Nigerian Legal Defense and Assistance Project (LEDAP) condemned Nigeria's capital punishment practices in a joint report released Tuesday, claiming that death row inmates are being denied their rights to...

The Supreme Court of Thailand on Monday convicted ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra of corruption charges related to a 2003 purchase of land by his wife Pojamarn Shinawatra [JURIST...

Jamal Kiyemba, Next Friend, et al., v. George W. Bush, President of the United States, et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, October 20, 2008 [ordering the delay of the release of 17 Uighur detainees...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote in a report issued Monday that the Iranian government has made limited progress in some areas of human rights but that other areas such as basic freedoms, minority rights and...

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Monday issued an order further delaying the release of 17 Uighur detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay as it set...

Outgoing UK Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald warned Monday against the expansion of government power in gathering intelligence and prosecuting suspected terrorists. In a speech delivered in London Macdonald speculated that present decisions about how...

US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) head Scott J. Bloch announced in a letter to President George W. Bush Monday that he will resign when his five-year term ends in January. Bloch could...