UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak sharply criticized the White House Wednesday for defending the use of waterboarding , calling the practice "absolutely unacceptable under international human rights law." Nowak's comments, as...

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday said he supports allowing UK courts to hear some evidence obtained through wiretap surveillance , telling parliament that the long-time prohibition against wiretap evidence should be lifted in situations where "key...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Wednesday that the trial of former Croatian general Ante Gotovina and two other military commanders will begin March...

Peter Herby, head of the Arms Unit of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) , expressed hope Wednesday that text of a treaty to ban the use of cluster bombs could...

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey is expected to testify before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday in opposition to a unanimous December 2007 decision by the US Sentencing Commission to retroactively reduce...

Spanish National Court Judge Fernando Andreu Wednesday indicted 40 members of the Rwandan military on genocide and terrorism charges stemming from crimes allegedly committed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide that claimed some 800,000 lives. Andreu...

The White House Wednesday defended the use of waterboarding , saying that the technique is legal. In response to questions as to whether waterboarding constituted torture, White House spokesman Tony Fratto reiterated that the...

A Russian court Wednesday denied former Yukos executive and lawyer Vasily Aleksanian temporary release from jail to receive medical treatment, even as the trial was suspended to allow him to be treated for health issues. Aleksanian's...

US District Judge James Ware of the US District Court for the Northern District of California heard arguments Tuesday on the government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan on state secrets grounds. The...

The corruption trial of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed was halted Wednesday when the Dhaka High Court ruled that she could not be tried by a special court established under state of...