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A Chilean appeals court on Monday allowed ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet to post bail for six of the nine human rights charges he faces relating to Operation Colombo . Pinochet...

Ugandan opposition leader and presidential challenger Dr. Kizza Besigye , who has been imprisoned since November on charges of treason and rape was released on bail Monday by the Ugandan High Court. Uganda's military court, which...

Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, as included in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006 and agreed to by the US House and Senate and signed by President Bush, December 30, 2005 [incorporating the McCain Amendment and the Graham-Levin Amendment...

Some 80 opposition politicians, reporters and aid workers facing treason and genocide charges in Ethiopia relating to November's street clashes over May elections that killed 46 people have complained that they have been denied access to lawyers by prison...

An Australian court hearing a bail application by Australian Muslims detained in a major November anti-terror sweep was told by prosecutors Friday that two of the suspects had discussed assassinating Australian Prime Minister John Howard, killing police...

The trial of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye on charges of treason and rape is set to begin on December 19. Besigye has been denied bail as he faces separate charges of terrorism and illegal...

Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Calvin Johnson has ordered the release without bail of as many as 100 prisoners who were arrested before Hurricane Katrina ravaged the area, but were never charged. Johnson,...

Former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma was charged with rape Tuesday in Johannesburg Magistrate's Court and was freed on 20,000 rand bail until the case opens on February 13, 2006. A family friend who viewed Zuma...

Liberia's president-elect Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf , soon to becomethe first female president of an African state, vowed Monday that all rapists will be appropriately punished during her presidency according to a new law. The country's parliament passed...

Former Egyptian presidential candidate Ayman Nour was detained on Monday, indicating that he may be sentenced soon on forgery charges. Nour's lawyer said that the court presiding over the trial ordered that Nour be detained until December...