The Council of Europe's European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) called on Russia to deal with allegations of torture and abuse in the volatile Chechnya...

Media giant Viacom filed a lawsuit Tuesday for copyright infringement against the website YouTube and owner Google , seeking over $1 billion in damages and an injunction that would prohibit further infringement. Viacom, which owns Comedy...

Pakistan's Supreme Judicial Council held a hearing Tuesday on the alleged misconduct of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as Pakistanis protested in the streets and lawyers boycotted courts across the country. Pakistani President Pervez...

The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) endorsed a declaration against torture drafted by 17 evangelical scholars, a move some say signifies an end to US President George W. Bush's alliance with Christian evangelicals....

A United Nations human rights expert urged the Philippines Monday to amend or repeal its new anti-terrorism law . Martin Scheinin, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism , specifically...

A British judge said Monday that he dropped prisoner abuse charges against the most senior British military officer charged with abusing detainees last week because his superiors approved some of the techniques. A British Army major testified...

A US federal judge has approved a settlement under which Arthur Andersen will pay $72.5 million to investors who sued the firm for its involvement in the Enron scandal . US District Judge Melinda Harmon...

The Tokyo High Court Tuesday ruled against a group of Chinese plaintiffs seeking $682,000 in damages for injuries caused by chemical weapons leaks left by the Imperial Japanese Army at the end of World War...

Former White House counsel Harriet Miers suggested to an aide of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that all 93 US Attorneys be fired at the beginning of President Bush's second term, but that suggestion was...

Foreign "guest workers" in the US are being continually and severely abused, according to a report pointedly entitled "Close to Slavery" issued Monday by the Southern Poverty Law Center . The report says that workers...