UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Leandro Despouy Tuesday expressed doubts about the fairness of Uzbekistan's ongoing trial of 15 alleged rebels accused of precipitating the violent May uprising in the town of...

New York Times reporter Judith Miller , recently released from an 85-day prison term for contempt after refusing to testify about her sources to a grand jury investigating the Valerie Plame leak, announced Tuesday...

Geoffrey Nice, the lawyer prosecuting former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , on Tuesday voiced his concern that the trial against the deposed leader [JURIST news...

A judge for the US District Court in Northern Georgia granted a temporary injunction Tuesday against the enforcement of a Georgia law that requires voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot. Georgia officials argued the...

Iranian Justice Minister Jamal Karimirad announced Tuesday that his country has sent its own indictment against former dictator Saddam Hussein to the Iraqi government, charging the former dictator with atrocities allegedly committed during the...

Human Rights Watch said Thursday that hundreds of individuals accused of minor crimes in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina struck are still detained in temporary local correctional facilities, awaiting a hearing before a judge. The chaos...

Uzbek police have arrested activist Mukhtabar Tojibaeva , hours before she was expected to attend a human rights conference. Tojibaeva, who heads up the human rights organization Fiery Hearts, has been a vocal critic of the Uzbek...

The US Department of Justice on Thursday announced that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will plead guilty to charges that it conspired with other technology companies to fix prices on some of its dynamic...

The Association of Muslim Scholars on Thursday urged Iraqis to reject the draft Iraqi constitution when it comes up for referendum on October 15 . A spokesman for...

The Environmental Protection Agency and the US Justice Department announced on Tuesday that ExxonMobil will spend an estimated $571 million to settle a lawsuit with the federal government and three states over alleged violations of...