Seventeen Chinese Uighur Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay for six years have still not been told why they are being held at the military facility, according to a letter written by one of the detainees and released...
US military judge Navy Capt. Keith Allred has affirmed a prior ruling that lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan may send written questions to Khalid Sheik...
Kenya should not grant amnesty to anyone who committed human rights violations in the wake of December's disputed presidential election , according to a report issued Wednesday by the Office of...
Iraq's Presidency Council Wednesday withdrew its objections to a provincial elections law detailing the relationship between Iraq's central and local governments. In a statement issued Wednesday, the three-member Presidency Council, comprised of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Vice...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Chamber of Commerce v. Brown , 06-939, a case where the Court is reviewing the constitutionality of a 2000...
US District Judge David Lawson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Tuesday dismissed with prejudice a constitutional challenge to Proposal 2 , an amendment to the Michigan...
Italian Judge Oscar Magi on Wednesday ordered the continuation of the trial of 26 Americans and several former Italian intelligence officials for the 2003 abduction and rendition of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama...
US Magistrate Judge John Facciola Tuesday ordered the White House to explain why it should not be required to create forensic copies of all e-mails passed through computers in the Executive Office of the...
The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Louisiana death sentence should be overturned because the trial judge "committed clear error" in ruling on the defendant's objection to a prosecution peremptory jury challenge, which...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Wednesday placed an injunction on a federal law that gave the government the ability to access and collect Internet and telephone data. The law, which went...