Former Cambodian Foreign Minister Ieng Sary and his wife Ieng Thirith were arrested Monday and brought before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . Ieng Sary and his wife, who served as...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has transferred former Bosnian Croat soldier Miroslav Bralo to Sweden to serve the remainder of his 20-year prison sentence, DPA reported Monday. Christer Isaksson, head...

The government of Sudan Sunday announced it had laid criminal charges against 25 opposition politicians. The announcement came one month after the country's Court of Appeal rejected a request for the release of the...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to decide this week if a bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will grant immunity from prosecution to telecommunications companies that...

US Army Staff Sgt. Michael Hensley was acquitted at court-martial late last week of premeditated murder charges related to the separate deaths of three Iraqi civilians in April and May this year in the...

Two Pakistani bar leaders warned Sunday that the government of President Pervez Musharraf is drafting papers to get Musharraf's declaration of emergency and Provisional Constitution Order validated by the new Supreme Court put in place by...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki accused the US military on Sunday of thwarting Iraqi attempts to execute Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in Western media as "Chemical Ali," and two other former...

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro flew into Myanmar on Sunday to investigate the military government's crackdown on protesters going on since September. Pinheiro's trip comes three weeks after the junta in...

Is Human Reproductive Cloning Inevitable: Future Options for UN Governance, UN University - Institute of Advanced Studies, November 10, 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's...

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Sunday that Pakistan would hold anticipated parliamentary elections before January 9, but set no time limit to the emergency rule he declared a week ago. At a press...