UK House of Lords judges Wednesday denied the appeal of a man accused of hacking US government computers in 2001 and 2002 who had argued that his extradition to the US would...
Council of Europe (COE) Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg Tuesday urged Italy to change immigration and preemptive crime policies that he says marginalize the country's Roma and Sinti minorities . Hammarberg memorandum [text; press...
Serbian authorities Wednesday transferred Bosnian Serb leader and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic to the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to face trial on war...
A DC federal grand jury Tuesday indicted US Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) on seven counts of making false statements relating to an alleged corruption scheme and for...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has upheld seven out of 12 charges against two US border agents who were found guilty of unlawfully shooting an illegal immigrant...
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim released a medical report Tuesday that he said refuted sodomy allegations made against him by a former aide. According to the report, the...
A lawyer for three Indonesian men sentenced to death for their role in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people said Monday that he would file a constitutional challenge to their method of execution. Mukhlas,...
Judges at London's High Court Monday rejected an appeal against the extradition of three Tunisian men arrested on terrorism charges who argued that their removal to Italy could ultimately lead to their torture. The three were arrested late last...
The 192-member UN General Assembly Monday unanimously voted to approve South African judge Navanethem Pillay as the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, replacing departing commissioner Louise Arbour . UN Secretary General Ban...
The human rights situation in China has continued to deteriorate as the start of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games draws closer, according to a report released Tuesday by Amnesty International (AI) . The report,...