Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Russia are chafing under increasingly strict regulations implemented under legislation signed into law in April 2006 by Russian President Vladimir Putin , rights groups told AP Wednesday in the wake of a...

Lawyers for former Italian Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) chief Nicolo Pollari said Wednesday that they have included Italian Prime Minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi as a requested witness to testify in support of Pollari's assertion that...

Several US states announced Wednesday that they would resume executions by lethal injection after the Supreme Court's decision upholding Kentucky's lethal injection protocol earlier in the day. Virginia lifted its death penalty moratorium and Oklahoma's...

Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was released from custody Wednesday by US military forces in Iraq. Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, deputy commanding general for detainee operations for the Multi National Force–Iraq ,...

The Federal Court of Australia Wednesday ruled against former Guantanamo detainee Mamdouh Habib in an ongoing claim for compensation against the Australian government, which he accused of being complicit in torture he...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Kennedy v. Louisiana , 07-343, where the Supreme Court considered whether the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual...

US District Judge Joan A. Lenard Wednesday declared a second mistrial in a terrorism prosecution of six men charged with conspiring to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI headquarters in Miami...

The European Union (EU) must do more to ensure that those responsible for war crimes committed during the 1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence are brought to justice, Amnesty International said Tuesday. Amnesty called on the...

Baze v. Rees, US Supreme Court, April 16, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...

Begay v. United States, US Supreme Court, April 16, 2008 . Read the full text...