Sunni Iraqi legislator Tayseer al-Mashhadani, kidnapped on July 1 by as-yet-identified captors, has been released on the eve of the launch of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's national reconciliation project announced earlier this summer. Al-Maliki described Saturday's release...

New Orleans Judge Arthur Hunter is slated to start reviewing the records of New Orleans prisoners in view of their possible release on Tuesday, the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina , which...

US government lawyers and US military lawyers are butting heads as the White House attempts to limit the role of the latter in framing draft legislation that would change the rules for trials of suspected terrorists, the Boston Globe...

Iraqi Defense Minister Hashem al Shebli said Saturday according to McClatchy Newspapers that the notorious Abu Ghraib prison is now empty as US officials have recently finished moving the prison's remaining 3,600 prisoners to other US-run...

Working Text, International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UN General Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, August 28,...

The US Department of Defense announced Saturday that it has transferred to Afghanistan five detainees formerly held as enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay . It is unclear where these detainees are from and...

A US journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner working in Africa on a National Geographic magazine assignment was charged in a Sudanese court Saturday with espionage, reporting false information and entering the country illegally. Paul Salopek...

State of Loiusiana v. All Property and Casualty Insurance Carriers Authorized and Licensed to Do Business in the State of Louisiana, Supreme Court of Lousiana, August 25, 2006 [upholding the constitutionality of two state laws extending the time limit for...

Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock told Australian TV Saturday that he has received assurances from the US government that it will not seek the death penalty in an anticipated new military trial of Australian Guantanamo Bay...

The Louisiana Supreme Court Friday upheld the constitutionality of two state laws extending the time limit for making insurance claims for damages suffered in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The rulings allow homeowners,...