Former Argentine general Luciano Benjamin Menendez and seven others went on trial Tuesday for the alleged 1977 kidnapping, torture, and killing of four political dissidents during the country's "Dirty War" . The...

Uganda has established a special court to hear cases of alleged war crimes and human rights abuses related to an ongoing rebellion in the country , a High Court judge said Monday. Uganda's government...

Bangladesh has approved the creation of a so-called Truth and Accountability Commission which would allow corrupt officials and businessmen guilty of corruption to avoid jail by confessing and returning money taken, officials said Monday. The commission...

Pakistan officials who ignored a Supreme Court order and went along with President Pervez Musharaff's declaration of emergency rule in November 2007 will be punished regardless of their position, ousted Pakistan Chief Justice...

Myanmar's draft constitution has been overwhelmingly approved in a national referendum after two rounds of voting with 92 percent of votes cast favoring the proposed charter and 98 percent of the country's 27 million eligible voters...

Egyptian parliamentarians voted 305-103 Monday to extend the country's emergency laws for two more years at the behest of the government. The laws, which were first implemented after the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, permit...

Security officials in Nepal banned protests and rallies near the royal palace and the residence of King Gyanendra on Monday, in anticipation of Wednesday's expected abolition of the Nepalese monarchy. Nepal's interim parliament...

Mengistu Haile Mariam , the former Marxist president of Ethiopia , was sentenced to death Monday after the Ethiopian Supreme Court allowed Ethiopian prosecutors' appeal of his January 2007 life sentence ...

Luis Moreno-Ocampo chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , told Reuters Sunday that the ICC was investigating possible new war crimes committed by the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army...

Arrest warrant for former Democratic Republic of Congo rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba in connection with war crimes and acts of genocide allegedly committed in the Central African Republic, International Criminal Court, unsealed May 23, 2008. Read the full text of...