A former Chinese anti-corruption prosecutor was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for torturing to death a government official in May 2007. Xiong Zhengliang was convicted of killing Liang Jiping, a deputy director of a government electricity...

A pair of Bosnian Serb cousins went to trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Wednesday on charges of murder, extermination and torture. Milan Lukic and Sredoje Lukic [indictment; case backgrounder,...

The US Senate Wednesday voted 69-28 to approve a bill amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies participating in the NSA warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news...

Israeli rights group Yesh Din published an update Tuesday to its 2006 report detailing the lack of investigations and prosecutions of Israeli settlers who commit crimes against Palestinians [JURIST news...

Attorney General Michael Mukasey denied Wednesday that proposed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) guidelines would allow agents to open terror investigations based solely on a person's race, religion, or ethnicity. Testifying at a meeting ...

The chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia said Tuesday that the US government should make detention appeals by Guantanamo detainees a top priority, and devote all necessary resources to ensuring that...

Judges at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) Wednesday denied the bail request of former Khmer Rouge minister for social affairs Ieng Thirith , finding that she could be...

A UK intelligence official said Tuesday that there are "very strong indications" that the Russian government was behind the murder of former KGB agent and British citizen Alexander Litvinenko . The official made the comments...

The US government is preventing the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from paying lawyers defending Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects on trial before US military commissions , ACLU director Anthony Romero said Tuesday. Lawyers for the...

A former British intelligence bureau chief told the House of Lords Tuesday that a proposed anti-terror bill allowing authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days is impractical...