The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday blocked the deportation of a Muslim cleric from the UK to Jordan. Abu Qatada is a Palestinian-Jordanian Islamic scholar who fled the Middle East under persecution...

Wednesday marked the tenth annivesary of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay . On January 11, 2002, 20 detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, imprisoned as the first "enemy combatants" in the War on Terror declared by the...

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was indicted Thursday on bribery charges over the construction of a luxury apartment complex called the Holyland towers. As Jerusalem's mayor from 1993 to 2003, Olmert, along with other city officials, allegedly accepted...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Wednesday heard arguments in an appeal by the state of Texas to lift a lower court's preliminary injunction against a state abortion law ...

A US military court heard closing arguments Thursday at the pre-trial hearing for Pfc. Bradley Manning , which will determine whether he will face a court martial for his alleged role in the largest intelligence...

A Chinese court Friday sentenced human rights advocate Chen Wei to nine years in prison, the toughest ruling issued this year in the ongoing government crackdown on dissidents, rights activists and protest organizers. Chen, 42, was sentenced after a...

China's government Friday announced that prominent civil rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng would be sent to prison for three years for violating his probation. Gao's sentence is the first sign that he is still alive...

Two international human rights organizations on Monday accused European countries of suppressing evidence of their roles in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) rendition program of forced transfer and secret detention. Legal action charity Reprieve, in cooperation...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday announced the findings of its three-year civil rights investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO). The investigation concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that MCSO engages in...

The UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Thursday released the first ever UN report on the global human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. The report details LGBT...