The government of Pakistan said Monday that a Tuesday protest march planned by former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto violates the declaration of emergency announced by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and...

Australian prosecutors dismissed a terrorist training charge against Izhar Ul-Haque Monday after the New South Wales Supreme Court found that two officials belonging to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) had violated his rights by...

The crew of the Cosco Busan, which leaked some 58,000 gallons of fuel oil into the San Fransisco Bay after colliding with a bridge last week, is being held for questioning by federal investigators as a criminal...

Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in Western media as "Chemical Ali," will not be transferred to Iraqi custody for execution until a legal debate on the executions is resolved, the US embassy in Iraq...

Ousted Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry said in a statement reported by Pakistani media Monday that he and other Pakistan Supreme Court judges were removed by General Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule early this...

Provisional draft report on UN Security Council and European Union blacklists, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), November 12, 2007 [criticizing procedures used by the UN Security Council and the European Union for blacklisting individuals and organizations on...

The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, International Criminal Court, November 9, 2007 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in...

Citizen for Responsibility and Ethnics in Washington v. Executive Office of the President, et al., The National Security Archive v. Executive Office of the President, at al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, November 12, 2007 [ordering the...

Iran temporarily suspended the sentence of women's rights activist Delaram Ali Monday for two weeks while officials decide whether to review her case. Despite leniency pleas from seven leading human rights organizations ,...

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro began his investigation Monday into the Myanmar military government's crackdown on protesters by visiting Rangoon's Insein prison and a Buddhist monastery earlier raided by troops. Pinheiro...