The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in the case of Fry v. Pliler , 06-5247, a case in which the defendant was convicted on two...

Reporter Rafig Tagi and editor Samir Huseinov, both of the newspaper Senet, went on trial Tuesday in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan for allegedly insulting Islam. Both claim the prosecution is...

France signed an extradition treaty with China Tuesday in Paris over the objections of human rights groups that oppose China's use of the death penalty. After signing the treaty, Justice Minister Pascal Clement [official profile, in...

The editor of a website in China that called for political reform has been sentenced to six years in prison by the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court in Zhejiang province for defaming the government. Zhang Jianhong [Reporters...

A defense lawyer for German Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel has been charged with incitement, attempting to thwart a prosecution, and using banned Nazi symbols during the original trial of Zundel in 2005. According to prosecutors at...

Baltasar Garzon , an investigating judge for Spain's National Court , said Tuesday that President George W. Bush and his allies eventually should face war crimes charges for their actions in Iraq....

US Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine told the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing on Tuesday that the confusion and abuses surrounding the use of National...

The UK Department of Education and Skills issued school uniform guidelines Tuesday that allow schools to ban students from wearing Muslim veils if teachers believe the garments can affect safety or a student's...

Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr said in an interview published Monday that he will be unable to identify the alleged CIA kidnappers who he says abducted him from Italy in...

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals withdrew class action status Tuesday from Enron shareholders who filed a shareholder derivative lawsuit in October 2001. US District Judge Melinda Harmon ...