Twenty Pakistani lawyers were injured by riot police Monday as protests against last week's suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry continued. More than 3,000 lawyers gathered outside the Lahore High Court ...

A UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) investigative team released a report Monday saying the citizens of Darfur need immediate protection against war crimes, blaming the government of Sudan for many of the atrocities...

China plans to gradually lessen the number of executions it carries out while still keeping the death penalty , according to a statement released Sunday by China's Supreme People's Court, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Security...

Zimbabwe police arrested at least 100 people - including opposition presidential hopeful Morgan Tsvangirai - in advance of a prayer meeting in the nation's capital Sunday. One activist was reportedly shot dead. Armed police had been deployed...

After initial expressions of concern and regret , several top Japanese politicians said over the weekend they would ignore a proposed US House of Representatives resolution calling for Japan to apologize to "comfort...

The Iraqi judge responsible for sentencing Saddam Hussein to death is not seeking political asylum in Great Britain, according to the Iraqi High Tribunal Sunday. Judge Rauf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman ...

South Carolina US senators Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint , both Republicans, have angrily criticized a Democrat-sponsored proposal to transfer current prisoners held at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the state's penal system or facilities...

A Libyan court Sunday granted the defense team for six foreign medics accused of slandering police agents an additional two weeks to prepare for trial. Five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death...

A revised version of a controversial bill granting amnesty to groups that allegedly committed war crimes was signed into law Saturday by Afghan President Hamid Karzai after being approved ...

Thousands of Italians rallied in Rome on Saturday in support of a bill that would give legal status to unmarried gay and heterosexual couples couples. The proposal, which has been harshly criticized by the Italian justice minister...