Two Egyptian protesters were allegedly tortured and sexually assaulted by Egyptian police after a peaceful demonstration in favor of two judicial reformists who exposed alleged fraud in the country's election last year, according to one of the...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, and FBI Director Robert Mueller were among a host of other government officials and prosecutors at the US Department of Justice who said they would...
Jury deliberations began Monday in the retrial of two former Enron executives from the fallen company's broadband department. Former CFO Kevin Howard and senior accounting director Michael Krautz are being retried...
Bushra Khalil, a defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein , said Monday that she believes Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , the Kurdish judge presiding over Hussein's trial , is harsher on her than other lawyers because...
Legal experts with the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) have questioned the credibility of some of the Cambodian judges who have been approved to serve on a war crimes tribunal that will hear cases against...
A federal judge Friday stayed the military commission trial of a Saudi Arabian man who has been held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay since 2002 for allegedly plotting with members of al Qaeda...
A new report by the Irish Human Rights Commission released Friday has found that Ireland may be in breach of international human rights laws because the country does not currently recognize same-sex marriages [JURIST news...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Friday that the Virginia home and office of former CIA executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo were searched as part of an investigation into Foggo's possible involvement in a...
Members of a European Union delegation currently in the US to investigate reports of secret CIA prisons in Europe for the European Parliament have complained about non-cooperation by US State Department...
US Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) said Wednesday that General Michael Hayden , the Bush administration's nominee for CIA director replacing Porter Goss, has suggested that he might welcome a modification to the 1978 Foreign...