Over seventy percent of Iranian MPs Wednesday supported a draft bill to suspend International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections of the country's nuclear facilities until the UN watchdog acknowledges Iran's right to pursue nuclear technology. The move...

AP is reporting that a Texas grand jury has issued an indictment for US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay . Earlier this month, an indictment was issued against a political action committee formed by DeLay and...

In the wake of increased international pressure, a military court in Nepal has sentenced an army colonel and two captains to six months in jail for their involvement in the 2004 death of a 15-year old teenage girl accused...

Torture, absence of the rule of law, violence against women and political persecution are among the laundry list of "egregious" human rights violations occurring in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , according to a new report from...

US Army Sgt. Joshua R. Claus is expected to plead guilty to charges that he abused detainees in Afghanistan, at his military trial Wednesday. Last month, Claus, a military intelligence interrogator, was charged with dereliction of duty...

US Army Capt. Ian Fishback , who served as an anonymous source for a recent Human Rights Watch report on the alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees, said Tuesday that Army investigators tried to track down young soldiers...

Advocacy group Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) , Wednesday released a report of human rights abuses revealing a high prevalence of torture and starvation in Turkey's psychiatric institutions. The results...

The Judicial Conference of the United States , the policy making body for federal judges, and the American Bar Association (ABA) have sent a letter to US Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA)...

Texas Judge William L. Abbott ruled Tuesday that former anti-Castro CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles will not be deported to either Cuba or Venezuela where local officials want to prosecute him for alleged terrorist acts. US attorneys...

Scotland Yard announced Tuesday that anti-terrorist officers have arrested a suspect in connection with the failed July 21 London bomb attacks , which occurred just two weeks after the fatal July 7 London bombings [JURIST news...