The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is engaging in torture in its efforts to root out political corruption, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Tuesday. The report claims that President Xi Jinping's ...

Dominic Ongwen , an alleged former top official in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity brought against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC)...

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled Tuesday that nuclear plants that were closed or scheduled to be closed as a result of a statute passed in 2011 can recover damages....

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday sentenced fugitive Idris Ali Sardar to death for war crimes during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. The ICTB held the trial in absentia, listing Sardar as "absconded" in...

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in racial gerrymandering cases from Virginia and North Carolina. The first case, Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections is analyzing a...

A court in Greece on Monday ruled against extradition of three Turkish soldiers, determining that the soldiers should be released from protective custody pending a final ruling on their asylum applications. The soldiers, along with five others, fled to Greece...

Prosecutors before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday began closing arguments in the trial of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic . It is expected that the closing arguments...

The UK Supreme Court on Monday began hearing an appeal to last month's ruling that only parliament has the authority to trigger the UK's exit from the EU. The case centers around the question of...

A UN Special Rapporteur on Monday "strongly condemn" the executions of three men in Belarus last week. Citing the executions as a confirmation of the "the persistent disregard for human rights in the country," the expert asserted...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Sunday that Shawqi Awad Balzuhair will be transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the government of Cape Verde, a small country off the Western coast of Africa. Balzuhair was first...