Dennis Rader , charged with 10 murders that took place between 1974 and 1991 as the "bind, torture, kill" (BTK) killer, pleaded guilty on Monday as his trial began in Wichita, Kansas. Prosecutors said before...

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed in courthouses. The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled in McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky that Kentucky counties that had...

A Greek prosecutor launched an investigation on Monday to probe possible Greek involvement in the Srebrenica killings in Bosnia in 1995 . Several Bosnian Serbs have already been arrested for their roles. Many of the...

A Kenyan magistrate on Monday acquitted three men charged with conspiracy in connection with a 2002 suicide bombing at a hotel. The attack, which al-Qaida claimed responsiblity for, killed 15 people . Earlier, four other defendants...

Over 9 million people are now in prison worldwide and the number is growing, according to a new report by the London-based International Centre for Prison Studies . The statistical survey included convicts and persons held...

Witness to Abuse Human Rights Abuses under the Material Witness Law since September 11, joint report by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union , June 26, 2005 [report claiming that the Bush administration has violated the...

The US military is planning to expand the current Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca detention facilities in Iraq and build a third major facility in the north of the country to accommodate a growing...

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday began hearing an appeal by Mukhtar Mai against the acqittal of five men who allegedly brutalized her in a gang-rape that attracted national and international attention and condemnation. Mai was...

The Iraqi Special Tribunal released silent footage Sunday from a judicial interrogation last week of six of Saddam Hussein's former lieutenants concerning the killing and deportation of Shiite Kurds and the repression of a Shiite revolt in...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch released a joint report Sunday claiming that the Bush administration has violated the material witness law by detaining nearly 70 terrorism suspects since September...