Japan's national bar association Thursday criticized the execution of three death row inmates and called for a moratorium on the death penalty until new safeguards can be enacted to prevent wrongful executions based on dubious...

Former US Attorney Bradley Schlozman , alleged to have improperly influenced decisions to prosecute voter fraud, has resigned his post in the Executive Office of US Attorneys at the Department of Justice (DOJ) , DOJ spokesman Brian...

A fistfight broke out between lawmakers in the Bolivian legislature Wednesday as opposition leaders tried to prevent lawmakers loyal to Bolivian President Evo Morales from bringing charges against four...

Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri and Mark A. Berman v. Commander S. L. Wright, USN Commander, Consolidated Naval Brig., US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, August 22, 2007 [order agreeing to rehear en banc to decide whether the military...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled Thursday that former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif can return to the country, effectively ending the 10-year exile imposed after Sharif was deposed in a military coup led by...

Nepal's draft Truth and Reconciliation Commission Bill of 2007 does not meet international legal standards as currently drafted, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission for Jurists said Wednesday. The groups called the bill "seriously...

New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram issued a directive Wednesday to state law enforcement agencies ordering them to alert US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials when an undocumented immigrant is arrested in...

A coalition of human rights groups in Zimbabwe said Wednesday that if human rights abuses continue to occur in Zimbabwe at the high pace they have in the first half of the year, 2007 will be...

Egyptian officials on Wednesday arrested two lawmakers from the Muslim Brotherhood in order to question them in a case involving "other Brotherhood members," according to a police official speaking anonymously. The Brotherhood, banned from officially...

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled Wednesday that former Qwest CEO Ralph Nacchio can remain free on bail pending his appeal of his insider trading conviction . Nacchio was convicted in...