Four members of Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) have been jailed for a year for having campaigned against the country's then-draft constitution , according to NLD spokesperson Nyan Win as quoted by AP. Win said Friday...

Former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the first time Friday after Belgium's Court of Cassation approved his...

A US district court judge Thursday released two US Marines who had previously been jailed for refusing to testify about the deaths of Iraqi detainees during the November 2004 offensive in Fallujah ....

Officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC) told journalists Thursday that the trial of Congolese ex-militia leader Thomas Lubanga would proceed as planned after evidentiary problems which had threatened the case were settled,...

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said Thursday that the administration is still working to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center , but suggested that a recent US Supreme Court decision could lead to...

Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers said Thursday that there may be applications of Sharia law in the British legal system during a speech ...

US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad submitted a draft resolution in the UN Security Council Thursday calling for sanctions against Zimbabwe's newly reinstalled president Robert Mugabe and eleven...

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged the Mongolian government to "exercise the utmost restraint" in dealing with protests of the country's recent parliamentary elections. President Nambar Enkhbayar ...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Thursday blasted a proposed plan that would allow Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents to consider a person's race, religion, or ethnicity in deciding whether to open...

Yemeni officials met with a visiting US delegation Thursday to discuss the possible transfer of Yemeni detainees still held at Guantanamo Bay . A major impediment to the negotiated release and repatriation of Yemeni detainees - who...