The superior courts of Pakistan are facing a massive shortage of judges in the wake of automatic dismissals following President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 declaration of emergency rule, according to Pakistani officials in the country's Law Ministry ...

About one dozen officers on trial in the Philippines in connection with a failed 2003 mutiny apologized to the court Tuesday for an aborted coup attempt against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo...

A retired US CIA agent told ABC News Monday that CIA interrogators have successfully used waterboarding to get crucial information about planned terror attacks, though the agent did say he considered the technique to be torture....

Thailand will pardon as many as 25,000 prisoners in honor of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 80th birthday, Thai Department of Corrections Director Wanchai Roujanavong told AFP Tuesday. Approximately 25,000 inmates are eligible for pardons and...

Lawyers from the CIA's clandestine operations branch, formerly known as the Directorate of Operations, provided written approval for the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects, the New York Times reported Tuesday. According to...

Portions of the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and its 2004 amendment, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act which make it a crime to help groups considered to be terrorist organizations by the...

Humanitarian Law Project et al. v. Michael V. Mukasey, United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, December 10, 2007 [striking down as too vague portions of the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and its 2004 amendment,...

The New Jersey Senate Monday voted 21-16 to pass a bill that would abolish the death penalty in the state and replace capital punishment with life in prison. The New Jersey Assembly [official...

The judge presiding over the embezzlement proceedings against relatives of the late former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet stepped down from the case Monday after the defendants' lawyers accused him of bias. The Santiago Court...

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of human rights abuses for allegedly ordering the 1992 murder of 25 people, including a professor and nine students at the so-called La...