The number of journalists imprisoned for their writings increased for the second year in a row in 2006 and one-third of those jailed are Internet journalists or bloggers, according to a new worldwide report from the Committee to...

US government lawyers asked a federal judge Friday to dismiss a lawsuit against outgoing US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in connection with alleged torture and abused by US personnel in Iraq...

War crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj agreed to end his nearly month-long hunger strike Friday after an appeals chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ruled that Seselj...

The US District Court for the Western District of Michigan ruled Thursday that the Michigan Department of Corrections in contempt of court for failing to conform with medical care requirements mandated by the...

An internal investigation has found that French police officers improperly handled a case that sparked weeks of rioting outside Paris and around the country late last year, a lawyer involved in the case said Thursday. The...

A first group of more than 40 detainees held at the US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay were transferred Thursday to a new $37 million dollar maximum-security prison built by Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg...

The Indonesian Constitutional Court on Friday overturned as unconstitutional a 2004 law establishing a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Indonesia to investigate, compensate, and resolve many human rights violations that occurred...

The Nigerian Supreme Court has ruled that an attempt to remove regional governor Rasheed Ladoja from his position was unconstitutional. Ladoja, governor of Nigeria's Oyo state, was impeached in January 2006 after being accused of corruption and...

Italian lawmakers are planning to draft legislation that would give some legal recognition to same-sex unions , officials from the Italian Senate said Thursday. Senate leaders have requested that a bill be drafted by January...

California v. Hewlett-Packard, Superior Court of California, December 7, 2006 [$14.5 million settlement agreement with California Attorney General Bill Lockyer in an unfair business practices suit stemming from HP's allegedly fraudulent attempts to obtain certain phone records, a practice known...