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Former chess champion and liberal United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov has accused Russian police of "brutality" after meeting with Kremlin officials Friday to give an account of his treatment at...

Writing Sunday in a Washington Post op-ed , US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales denied any impropriety on his part in the firings of eight US Attorneys . Two days before his scheduled Congressional testimony on the firings,...

Chiquita Brands International, Inc. has reached a plea agreement with the US Justice Department to settle claims that Chiquita paid approximately $1.7 million to a Colombian terrorist group between 1997 and 2004 to protect banana harvesting operations...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern, Assistant Professor of Law at the US Military Academy, West Point, NY, discusses the evolution of rule of law challenges in Iraq post-2003 and proposes new criteria for achieving and assessing Iraq's status as a...

A 50-year-old Iraqi woman has accused Iraqi forces of rape, an Iraqi official said Thursday, the second such accusation in a week. The attack on the Sunni woman and her two daughters allegedly occurred less than two weeks ago...

US Army Sgt. Paul E. Cortez pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") area last March. Cortez reached...

Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters will escape jail time after a defense lawyer for BALCO founder Victor Conte admitted Wednesday in court filings that he allowed reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada ...

UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer on Wednesday backed a proposal to allow police officers to question terror suspects after they have been formally charged. Following a speech defending the UK Human Rights Act [text; backgrounder; JURIST...

Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has denied reports that it has shut down operations due to lack of funding , with a spokesperson telling the Voice of America Thursday that...

War crimes complaint against former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials and advisors filed with the German Federal Prosecutor on behalf of eleven former Abu Ghraib detainees and one Guantanamo detainee all claiming to have been...