International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo Wednesday asked the UN Security Council to press Sudan to execute outstanding arrest warrants against two Sudanese men accused of crimes against humanity in...
Newly declassified court documents show that a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) at Guantanamo Bay ignored evidence clearing German-born Turkish citizen Murat Kurnaz of terrorist connections, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Kurnaz...
The Iraqi parliament met briefly Wednesday to continue debate on a controversial bill that would allow former Baath Party members not convicted of any crimes to return...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Wednesday reduced the sentences of three Rwandan media executives imprisoned for their roles in the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Ferdinand Nahimana and...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Rowe v. New Hampshire Motor Transport , 06-457, where the Court is considering whether a Maine tobacco transport law...
US State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger III Tuesday called for the international community to "clarify" Geneva Convention rules pertaining to treatment of detained terror suspects. Speaking to reporters at an...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in New Jersey v. Delaware , 134, Orig., to revisit a century-old water boundary dispute between the two states. In 2005,...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour called on Pakistan to restore judicial independence in comments to AFP Wednesday, saying that an independent judiciary is just as important as free elections to a democracy. Pakistani President...
Prosecutors argued before a hearing of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Wednesday that former Khmer Rouge official Kaing Guek Eav should be denied bail to prevent violence that...
The UN General Assembly Third Committee Tuesday approved a draft resolution imploring Iran to "respect fully its human rights obligations." The draft expressed concern about ongoing human rights violations in Iran...