The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) will wait for international monitors to finish their investigation of fraud complaints before it releases the results of the December 15 Iraqi parliamentary election . The International Mission...

Swiss Senator Dick Marty , who has been investigating allegations of illegal renditions and secret detention centers in Europe sponsored by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , said Friday that he...

The Tashkent City Court in Uzbekistan has ordered Washington DC-based pro-democracy group Freedom House to suspend its activities there for the next six months. The government alleges that the...

Two judges sitting with Iraqi High Criminal Court judge Rizgar Amin , currently presiding over the Saddam Hussein trial , Saturday dismissed as "baseless" press reports that he would resign at the next sitting...

Jeffrey Barham et al. v. Charles H. Ramsay, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, January 13, 2006 [refusing to grant immunity to two police officials named in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 386 people...

A source close to Rizgar Amin , the chief judge of the Iraqi High Criminal Court presiding at the Saddam Hussein trial , said Friday that Amin would "withdraw" from his position, announcing his reasons at...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused to grant immunity Friday to two police officials named in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 386 people who were roped off at Pershing Park...

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in the case of Dixon v. United States, where the Court will clarify how criminal defendants can use evidence of domestic battery at their trials. Cherie Ashford...

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced Friday that he will vote to confirm US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito , while most, if not all, of the eight...

Turkey's Minister of Justice Cemil Cicek said Friday that Mehmet Ali Agca , the Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, may have mistakenly been released from prison eleven months early for the...