A Pakistani rights group Sunday urged Pakistan's new government to immediately release dozens of people its security agencies have secretly detained as part of President Pervez Musharraf's cooperation with the US in its "war on terror" [JURIST...

Several top military officials in the Philippines on Sunday called for Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to pardon the nine officers sentenced this week for their role in a failed 2003 coup [BBC...

Nine Tibetan monks have been arrested by Chinese authorities in connection with the March bombing of a government building as part of recent protests against Chinese rule in Tibet . China's Xinhua news agency reported Saturday that the...

The Communist Party of Nepal - Maoists (CPN-M) has won 27 constituencies where vote counting has been completed in the election for Nepal's Constituent Assembly, election officials said Saturday. The 601 member assembly will...

Indonesian Internet providers said Friday that they will remove a ban on file-sharing websites including YouTube, Google Video, and MySpace , which was put in place to prevent the transmission of a controversial anti-Islamic film [JURIST...

China's chief justice has instructed judges to impose harsh sentences, including the death penalty, for violent crimes, China's Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. Touring the Guangdong province last week, president of the Supreme People's Court Wang Shengjun...

Frustrations over the delay of the US military commission trial of Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr continued Friday, with prosecutors urging US military judge Col. Peter Brownback to set a trial date and...

A Colombian court Friday temporarily blocked extradition to the US of narcotics trafficker and former paramilitary chief Carlos Mario Jimenez Naranjo, also known as "Macaco," staying extradition approval granted last week by President Alvaro Uribe that had followed the...

The US will continue to hold Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein despite an Iraqi judicial order dismissing terrorism-related charges against Hussein, a US military spokesman has said. Hussein, who has been detained...

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday that DHS will move forward with plans to use spy satellites as part of a domestic intelligence program designed to assist law enforcement agencies. In his...