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Attorneys representing US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl said Sunday that they will ask the US Army Court of Criminal Appeals to dismiss discretion charges against their client in light of comments made by President Donald...

Phil Shiner, a disgraced human rights lawyer, is no longer allowed to practice law after being struck off Thursday after having 12 charges of misconduct proved against him. Shiner raised a myriad of allegations that British troops tortured...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte , who was elected last May after campaigning on a promise to be extremely harsh on drug users , announced the suspension of the island nation's "war on drugs" during a press conference...

The Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said he plans to declare martial law if the country's drug problem becomes "very virulent." Duterte, who recently called reports that he intended to institute martial law "nonsense," has made a...

The Court of Appeals of Missouri ruled Tuesday that frozen pre-embryos, fertilized eggs that are not implanted in the uterus, are legally classified as marital property, and the consent of both parties is required before the pre-embryos can...

The Philippines Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that former dictator Ferdinand Marcos may be placed in the nation's "Heroes' Cemetery" despite public uproar denouncing the burial. In August human rights victims filed a petition against the...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced Tuesday that European human rights laws that have led to "vexatious" claims against British soldiers will no longer apply on the battlefield. The action taken by the government will free armed forces...

A policing unit in Afghanistan set up to investigate alleged war crimes committed by UK soldiers stationed in the war-torn country reportedly received around 600 complaints of ill treatment and abuse occurring between 2005 and 2013. Members of...

Human rights victims of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos' regime petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court on Monday to permanently block the government's plan to bury him in the "Heroes Cemetery." The petitioners assert that the burial for the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Cooper, a former DC public defender, addresses prosecutor Michele Hanisee's remarks concerning the death penalty in California... Speaking in favor of Proposition 66, the ballot initiative that seeks to speed up executions in California to Texas-like...