The US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday voted 15-2 to send a federal shield bill , which would protect reporters from being compelled to disclose confidential sources, to the full Senate for consideration. The Bush administration...

Twenty-three family members and former associates of the late former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet were indicted in Chile Thursday on corruption charges. The 23 suspects include five...

Nicholas Phillips , the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, urged Americans to respect human rights and embrace immigrants as a means of fighting international terrorism in an address to the International Law Section of...

US District Judge Gladys Kessler of the DC District Court has ruled that Haji Rohullah , an Afghan citizen detained by the US military at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, is entitled to...

The US House of Representatives voted 389-30 Thursday in favor of a bill to effectively end the "de facto immunity" enjoyed by many private contractors working for the US in Iraq. While Defense Department [official...

A Fijian court Thursday began hearing the case brought by former Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase against Fiji's current acting government over allegations that the December military coup that ousted him was illegal. Central to...

The Iraqi government will intentionally miss a 30-day deadline to execute former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid , also known as "Chemical Ali," choosing instead to delay the execution until after the Islamic holy...

Ruzatullah, et al. v. Robert Gates, Secretary, US Department of Defense, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, October 2, 2007 [ruling that detainees held by US forces abroad are entitled to 30 days advance notice of...

Execution by Lethal Injection: A quarter century of state poisoning, Amnesty International, October 4, 2007 . Read the full...

Two secret legal opinions circulated within the US Department of Justice in 2005 endorsed "severe" interrogation techniques, including "head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures," the New York Times reported Thursday. The DOJ opinions, the first of which was released...