Saddam Hussein was again thrown out of court during his trial on genocide charges Tuesday after he tried to speak into the microphone during court proceedings. Chief Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa immediately turned off...

The US delivered a list of proposed sanctions against North Korea (DPRK) to the UN Security Council Monday at a meeting to discuss North Korea's reported underground nuclear testing . The US proposed...

The Mississippi American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a list of felony crimes which prevent convicted individuals from voting in the state. The lawsuit was filed against the offices of the...

Mexico may ask the UN to intervene in a brewing border fence dispute with the United States, Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said Monday. Legal experts are investigating the legality of...

An April trial date has been set for former Cabinet Office spokesman David Keogh and former parliamentary researcher Leo O'Connor, accused of violating Section 3 of Britain's Official Secrets Act by leaking a secret memo in which President...

Khaled el-Masri wept Monday as he testified before a Spanish judge about his alleged extraordinary rendition to Afghanistan by US intelligence agents. El-Masri, a German citizen born in Kuwait, described how he was...

British Home Secretary John Reid Monday outlined steps to combat the increasingly urgent problem of prison overcrowding . Over the weekend, the prison population of England and Wales reached a record...

The US Navy lawyer who successfully represented the plaintiff Guantanamo detainee in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and took his case all the way to the US Supreme Court has been denied a promotion and will leave the...

JURIST is seeking to expand its Webby award-winning staff of professional editors by hiring a talented, public-service oriented individual with law and/or journalism experience to serve as a part-time legal news editor based in California. JURIST's West Coast Editor...

Leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Monday repeated their call for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to lift international arrest warrants against five top LRA leaders, and threatened to continue their violent...