The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Wednesday found three former guerrilla leaders guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their roles in the country's civil war. Issa Hassan Sesay, Morris Kallon,...

Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Angel Moratinos on Tuesday indicated his country's willingness to accept Guantanamo detainees during his meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington...

Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday urged the Guatemalan Congress to approve a law establishing a National Search Commission for the Persons Forcibly and Involuntarily Disappeared. The proposed legislation was presented to...

Judges from more than 30 Spanish provinces went on a one-day strike Wednesday to demand that the country's judicial system hire more judges and adopt electronic technology to decrease the workload faced by current judges. The judges were led by 21...

Egyptian authorities in Cairo released imprisoned political opposition leader Ayman Nour late Wednesday for medical reasons. Egypt's public prosecutor Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud unexpectedly announced the release of nine prisoners for medical reasons, including Nour....

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld Tuesday a New York City law that requires chain restaurants to post caloric content information on their menus and menu boards in...

A lawyer for one of the men accused in the killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya alleged in his closing statements Tuesday that the prosecution's main pieces of evidence are flawed and have been...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied Tuesday a petition by two Guantanamo Bay detainees to stop the force-feeding imposed on them during their hunger strike,...

Officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Thursday that the ICC has not issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir , refuting Wednesday reports that the...

Information redacted from a British High Court decision released last week has been withheld from US President Barack Obama and may hold key information about British involvement in the alleged torture of Guantanamo...