Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will be sentenced next week for ordering a 2000 warrantless search on the apartment of the wife of former Peruvian Intelligence Director Vladimiro Montesino , according to a...

International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo Wednesday asked the UN Security Council to press Sudan to execute outstanding arrest warrants against two Sudanese men accused of crimes against humanity in...

A group of renowned Chinese lawyers and academics Tuesday released an open letter to the Chinese government , calling for the end of "re-education" labor camps. The scholars said the camps, originally designed in 1957 to deal...

Newly declassified court documents show that a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) at Guantanamo Bay ignored evidence clearing German-born Turkish citizen Murat Kurnaz of terrorist connections, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Kurnaz...

Former Pakistani prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto are in negotiations to draw up a list of formal demands they say must be met by the government of...

Disgraced Democratic Party fundraiser Norman Hsu was indicted Tuesday on 15 additional counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, and violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) in connection with a massive alleged...

Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda Wednesday apologized to the thousands of Japanese women and children abandoned during Japan's retreat from China at the close of World War II, marking the first time...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the consolidated cases of Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195) and Al Odah v. United States (06-1196) on whether detainees at...

Investigators in Chad Tuesday completed a criminal probe into French charity Zoe's Ark for its involvement in an October attempt to airlift 103 alleged Darfur orphans from Chad to Europe,...

The Pakistan Law and Justice Ministry Tuesday announced the formal forced retirement from the Pakistan Supreme Court and other high courts of 37 judges, including ousted Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry , who was replaced immediately after...