The Uzbekistan interior ministry on Thursday denied allegations that they used illegal torture methods to extract confessions from the 15 men on trial for the political uprising in Andijan , which led to government troops killing 500 [JURIST...

Iran's judiciary has finalized a list of charges against ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein , which include charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, violations of international law, and using prohibited chemical weapons. These charges stem from the...

Britain's House of Lords on Thursday upheld legislation which makes hunting wild mammals with dogs throughout England and Wales a criminal offense. The 1949 Parliament Act was used late last year to push the Hunting Act...

The Philippine government has agreed "in principle" to give southern Muslims the authority to develop their own tax system, build their own institutions, and write their own charter, according to a report in Thursday's Philippine Daily...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed personal records of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist in its investigation into possible insider trading by Frist, the Washington Post reported Thursday . The...

China has expressed "resolute opposition" to a US report critical of the country for its handling of human and religious rights, with a spokesman from the Foreign Ministry of China arguing that the US was...

US District Judge Thomas F. Hogan has lifted a contempt order against New York Times reporter Judith Miller following her testimony Wednesday before a federal grand jury investigating the 2003 leak of the identity...

A US district judge has awarded $91 million for emotional distress to the family of Joseph Cicippio, who was held hostage in Lebanon by the paramilitary group Hezbollah from 1986 to 1991. US District Judge Henry...

Detainees at prisons across Iraq who have not yet been tried cast their votes in the country's constitutional referendum Thursday as authorities stepped up security in preparation for the full referendum on Saturday. Those...

Letters of US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to then-Texas Governor George W. Bush, released by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, October 11, 2005. Read selected letters via The Smoking Gun. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....