In the wake of increased international pressure, a military court in Nepal has sentenced an army colonel and two captains to six months in jail for their involvement in the 2004 death of a 15-year old teenage girl accused...
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Torture, absence of the rule of law, violence against women and political persecution are among the laundry list of "egregious" human rights violations occurring in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , according to a new report from...
US Army Sgt. Joshua R. Claus is expected to plead guilty to charges that he abused detainees in Afghanistan, at his military trial Wednesday. Last month, Claus, a military intelligence interrogator, was charged with dereliction of duty...
US Army Capt. Ian Fishback , who served as an anonymous source for a recent Human Rights Watch report on the alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees, said Tuesday that Army investigators tried to track down young soldiers...
Advocacy group Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) , Wednesday released a report of human rights abuses revealing a high prevalence of torture and starvation in Turkey's psychiatric institutions. The results...
The Judicial Conference of the United States , the policy making body for federal judges, and the American Bar Association (ABA) have sent a letter to US Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA)...
Texas Judge William L. Abbott ruled Tuesday that former anti-Castro CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles will not be deported to either Cuba or Venezuela where local officials want to prosecute him for alleged terrorist acts. US attorneys...
Scotland Yard announced Tuesday that anti-terrorist officers have arrested a suspect in connection with the failed July 21 London bomb attacks , which occurred just two weeks after the fatal July 7 London bombings [JURIST news...
Rise, Peak, and Decline: Trends in U.S. Immigration 1992-2004, Pew Hispanic Center, September 27, 2005 [report concluding that legal immigration to the US has decreased and the rate of illegal immigration into the US has increased since the September 11...
Minority Shiites who make up about about ten percent of Saudi Arabia's population have petitioned King Abdullah for prisoner releases and equal opportunities a month after the new monarch in his first address to the nation ...
