Three US lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay , calling the prison a symbol of US failure and hypocrisy. Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) announced...

A federal judge dismissed the indictment against anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles on Tuesday, holding that the government purposefully manipulated Carriles' statement in order to charge him with lying to immigration authorities....

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Tuesday denied a request by the city government of Washington, DC for an en banc rehearing of the court's March decision invalidating the city's handgun ban ....

With Serbia poised to assume the rotating presidency of the Council of Europe this week, several human rights groups have spoken out against the country's new role, asserting that a country in violation of the 1948 Genocide...

The Administrative Court in Egypt ruled Tuesday that a presidential order that forty top members of the Muslim Brotherhood be tried before a military court was invalid, holding that the members must...

Jury selection concluded Tuesday in the terrorism trial of Jose Padilla and two co-defendants. Prosecutors have accused the defense of trying to exclude all white and Hispanic men from the jury, while the defense accused prosecutors...

Tennessee executed its first death row inmate Wednesday after a moratorium on executions imposed by the governor in February expired earlier this month. Philip Workman's execution had been postponed five times, and last minute...

Scotland Yard arrested four suspects in London on Wednesday in connection with the London transit bombings on July 7, 2005 that left 52 people dead. Police arrested Mohammed Sidique...

Russian officials have harassed human rights defense lawyer Karinna Moskalenko and are attempting to disbar her after Moskalenko filed complaints with the European Court of Human Rights over alleged rights violations by the Russian government, the International Helsinki Federation...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday that it will continue to move forward with implementation of the REAL ID Act , despite opposition among state legislatures and in the US...