California state corrections officials say that an emergency proclamation by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger aimed at relieving prison overcrowding by transferring prisoners to out-of-state facilities is set for implementation next month. The program, intending to...

Arizona v. Gonzalez, US Supreme Court, October 19, 2006 [ruling that Arizona can enforce a new law requiring voters to show government-issued ID cards at the polls for the November elections, reversing an earlier decision by the US Court of...

Notice of Military Commissions Act of 2006, US Department of Justice, October 20, 2006 [informing the US District Court for the District of Columbia that pursuant to provisions of the Act it no longer has jurisdiction over 196 habeas corpus...

The Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) says that a Moroccan detainee held at Guantanamo Bay who was supposedly transferred to the government of Morocco on October 12 is missing, according...

UK Home Secretary John Reid is soliciting bids for the provision of prison ships to house approximately 800 inmates to relieve pressure on Britain's overcrowded jails. The system has neared its 80,000 inmate limit and...

US Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has urged the US Justice Department to appeal this week's federal court ruling vacating the conviction of former Enron Chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay ....

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) prosecutor Carla del Ponte said Saturday that she believes that Bosnian war fugitive Ratko Mladic "is in Serbia, in...

Repeated allegations of widespread human rights abuses in Myanmar continue to go uninvestigated by the military government and its inaction remains the primary obstacle to securing human rights in the country, according to a new UN...

US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried Friday condemned the passage of a bill last week by the French lower house of parliament making it a crime to deny that killings...

Rogelio Pfirter , director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has urged North Korea and several Middle Eastern countries, including Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and Syria, to join the Chemical Weapons...