A federal judge has granted a request by defense attorneys that sentencing for Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , convicted in November of last year for joining al Qaeda and conspiring to assassinate President...
A French court has ordered the three acquitted photographers who pursued Princess Diana and Dodi al Fayed's car the night of their fatal crash in 1997 to pay one euro in damages...
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Wednesday again asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to answer his request for provisional release to travel to Russia for...
Nearly 100 detainees have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, according to findings of the US rights group Human Rights First initially reported Tuesday evening on BBC television's Newsnight program [video...
Carla del Ponte , chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , said Wednesday that Serbian government officials had told her that war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has...
Leading Tuesday's international brief, Israeli attorney Eran Shahar, representing Civil Coalition (CC), a civil rights group, has filed a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the German Constitutional Court on charges of incitement and denying the...
US Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) , the ranking Democrat on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence , said Tuesday that a top intelligence official had been prepared to brief the committee in December on the Bush administration's...
Chilean judge Orlando Alvarez on Tuesday refused to release former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori from custody while the judge considers an extradition request for Fujimori . The decision means Fujimori, who is being...
Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, US Supreme Court, February 21, 2006 . Read the full text of the...
Protecting Minority Voters: The Voting Rights Act at Work 1982-2005, National Commission on the Voting Rights Act, February 21, 2006 . Excerpt:In short,...