Human Rights Watch decried conditions at Guantanamo Bay as contrary to international norms of humane treatment in a report released Tuesday, saying that detainees face extreme isolation that can cause...

Fifteen members of Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) were released from custody Monday, two weeks after their arrests at a demonstration in support of detained party leader Aung San Suu Kyi . The activists...

Fourteen accused Zayidi Shi'ite rebels, among them outspoken Yemeni journalist Abdel Karim al-Khaywani , were sentenced in a Yemeni court Monday for their roles in an ongoing Shi'ite uprising. Thirteen of the rebels received sentences of...

The US District Court for the District of Columbia began hearings Monday in Cobell v. Kempthorne , a class-action suit brought in 1996 alleging US government mismanagement of trust funds for a group of...

The Supreme Court of Virginia has upheld a woman's visitation rights regarding a child who was born to her former lesbian partner while the two were engaged in a same-sex union under Vermont law [Vermont...

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be released from detention Monday to seek US treatment for health issues including high blood pressure and severe ear and eye conditions. Bangladesh's emergency government charged Hasina...

The Pentagon has said that an additional 108 military lawyers and paralegals will be assigned to work on the cases of prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay , twice the current number. Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann...

The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Monday, including Allison Engine v. United States , where the Court ruled that the Federal False Claims Act is not limited...

Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, the military defense lawyer for Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr (DOD materials; JURIST news archive] said Sunday that personnel at Guantanamo Bay were ordered to destroy hand-written notes made during the interrogations of...

Members of the Pakistan lawyers' movement Monday followed through on last month's promise to protest from city to city in a call for the restoration of judges ousted by President...