A court in Indonesia ruled Monday that the country's attorney general must reopen corruption charges against former President Suharto , saying that the charges should not have been dropped, but Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh...
Spain's National Court said Monday it would investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency used an airport on the island of Mallorca in its alleged "spider's web" of extraordinary rendition flights to transport terror suspects. The...
UK Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith defended the UK's court-martial system Monday, stating that the decision to prosecute four British soldiers for the drowning death of a 15-year old Iraqi boy in 2003 was not politically motivated....
Violent crime - consisting of violent murders, robberies and aggravated assaults - increased in 2005 for the first time since 2001, according to the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report released by the Federal Bureau...
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases Monday, including Hill v. McDonough , where the Court held that a death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality...
The Hamas party , which controls the Palestinian Legislative Council , launched a challenge to a referendum proposed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas , calling an emergency debate Monday on whether a referendum is...
Military officials said Sunday that the three Guantanamo Bay detainees who committed suicide Saturday by hanging themselves with bedsheets and clothing - identified as Saudis Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi and Yasser...
An American defense lawyer in the Saddam Hussein trial accused the Iraqi High Tribunal on Monday of not giving the defense team enough time to present their case on behalf of Hussein and his...
Alabama Death Penalty Assessment Report, American Bar Association, June 11, 2006 . Read the full text of the...
The suicides of three detainees , two Saudis and a Yemeni, at Guantanamo Bay on Saturday prompted Saudi Interior Ministry officials to renew calls on Sunday for all Saudi prisoners to be released from the...