Members of the Serbia-Montenegro parliament have passed a law to authorize the freezing of assets of fugitives accused of war crimes in an effort to comply with requirements of the European Union and International Criminal Tribunal for...

In a report read in court as the Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad Monday, handwriting experts testified that some of the signatures on documents connected with the execution of 148 Shiite villagers belonged to Hussein....

Nepal security forces on Monday fired on a group of pro-democracy protesters in Nijgadh, killing at least one person and wounding five, marking the fifth incident where police have fired upon protesters since widespread...

Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced Sunday that she would commute all death sentences to life imprisonment. With the decision affecting 1,200 convicts currently on death row, Arroyo said, "I wish to announce that we...

Over 100 Muslim Brotherhood members were detained by Egyptian police Sunday, continuing the ruling government's persecution of party members. According to a source from the Interior Ministry, these latest arrests were in response to planned demonstrations by...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is urging French prosecutors to open a judicial inquiry into allegations that CIA-operated rendition flights stopped at French airports. A local French prosecutor has already opened a...

Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been hospitalized in Russia after being stabbed in the face by another prisoner while he slept, Khodorkovsky's lawyer Yury Schmidt said Saturday. The injury to Khodorkovsky's...

The Spanish Supreme Court has overturned the convictions of three men found guilty last year of collaborating with or belonging to al Qaeda in connection with the Sept. 11 terror attacks [JURIST news...

Belarus opposition politician and former foreign economic relations minister Mikhail Marinich was released from prison Friday, after having served nearly two years of a two and a half year sentence. Arrested in April 2004...

Eight thousand pro-democracy protesters assembled in Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu Saturday in the largest demonstration against the rule of King Gyanendra since the current round of protests began over a week...