The Budapest Chief Prosecutor on Monday announced charges against a near-91-year-old former communist interior minister for war crimes in connection with the killing of more than 50 civilians demonstrating against the Hungarian regime in 1956....

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday that the married owners of a prospective tattoo parlor could bring suit against the City of Mesa for violating the couple's constitutionally protected rights to freedom of expression in...

The US Department of State on Friday said that former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo should be immune from a Connecticut lawsuit filed over the 1997 killings of 45 people...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Southern of Florida ruled Friday that a suit against the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) over the agency's failure to report Allen Stanford...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday addressed the world's most significant human rights issues as she opened the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council . Pillay criticized Bahrain...

The head of the Council of Europe on Monday advocated for free and fair parliamentary elections in Ukraine as he condemned the imprisonment of former prime minister and opposition party leader Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website;...

Oil workers in Kazakhstan face mistreatment and repression at the hands of the government and oil companies, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Monday. According to HRW, Kazakh authorities and...

The trial for Saif al-Islam , one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons, will be postponed for five months so the prosecution can obtain evidence from Libya's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi , government officials announced on Sunday....

Former Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi was sentenced to death after being convicted on three counts of murder on Sunday. The verdict was given in absentia because al-Hashemi has been in hiding since...

The states of New York, Connecticut and Vermont filed an amicus brief along with several other groups in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday in support of the lower court...