Lebanon slid into constitutional crisis Friday as pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud purported to declare a "state of emergency" and hand security responsibility to the army in a vaguely worded statement issued just before leaving office midnight at...

Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf Friday denounced the UK government's latest proposal to extend beyond 28 days the time that terror suspects can be held without charge, supporting positions taken by other current and former top...

An International Criminal Court prosecutor said Thursday that the court would not withdraw controversial indictments against leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) . Alluding to a call for a review of the...

UN Special Rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak Friday called on the government of Indonesia to step up efforts at stopping ill-treatment and torture of individuals under police detention. Nowak concluded a two-week visit to...

Courthouses in the northern Indian cities of Lucknow, Varanasi, and Faizabad were hit Friday with bombings that killed at least 13 lawyers and injured over 50 other people. The blasts occurred in the Indian state of Uttar...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan Friday upheld President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) and accompanying proclamation of emergency. The seven member bench of the court ruling on the issue - made...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Thursday urged Pakistan to reinstate all of the judges dismissed under President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 declaration of emergency rule before parliamentary elections slated for January. In Dublin to...

Commonwealth foreign ministers meeting in Uganda announced Thursday that they had agreed to suspend Pakistan from the group of 53 nations "pending the restoration of democracy and the rule of law in that country." A statement ...

The Supreme Court of Chile on Wednesday upheld an appeals court decision to drop embezzlement charges brought against the widow and five sons of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet . The...

The UN General Assembly Third Committee Wednesday approved a draft resolution imploring the government of Belarus to uphold its "obligation to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil...