China's deputy chief prosecutor has said that almost every wrongful conviction in the country in recent years has been the result of torture and intensive interrogation techniques. The government has discovered at least 30 people who were...

Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York, New York State Court of Appeals, November 20, 2006 [ruling that the state must spend about $2 billion more per year to provide children in the New York City public school...

US District Judge Paul L. Friedman Monday rejected a Guantanamo Bay detainee's petition to have his heart operation transferred to a civilian facility. Saifullah Paracha , a multimillionaire...

Judging Dujail: The First Trial before the Iraqi Tribunal, Human Rights Watch, November 19, 2006 . Read the...

The New York State Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the state must spend about $2 billion more per year to provide children in the New York City public school system with "a sound basic...

UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith spoke out Monday against a proposal by Prime Minister Tony Blair to extend the 28-day limit on police detentions of terrorism suspects who have not been charged....

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Dan Halutz Monday expressed disappointment about Israel's use of cluster bombs during the recent Middle East conflict and ordered an investigation into...

Thai human rights groups have demanded that former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra face charges for crimes against humanity relating to his rough anti-drug campaign. The Lawyers Council of Thailand and the National Human Rights Commission...

The governors of six of Bolivia's nine states vowed over the weekend to break off relations with President Evo Morales following a move to give Morales' leftist party more power to rewrite the...

Tom Noe , a former Republican fundraiser and prominent coin dealer in Ohio, was sentenced on Monday to 18 years in prison after his conviction last week on theft, corrupt activity, money laundering, forgery and tampering...