A panel of the US House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to move forward with contempt proceedings against former White House counsel Harriet Miers after she ignored a subpoena ordering her to appear and testify at...

United States of America v. I. Lewis Libby, US District Court for the District of Columbia, July 12, 2007 [ruling that the President's commutation of Libby's prison term did not necessarily remove Libby's supervised release and entering into the record...

A series of interviews with US veterans of the Iraq war shows a pattern of systematic human rights abuses, according to a new report in The Nation . The magazine calls the investigation, which yielded thousands of...

UN International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) head Serge Brammertz said in a report to the UN Security Council Thursday that the probe into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news...

Jonathan 'Jack' Idema , an American civilian convicted of illegal imprisonment and torture as a rogue vigilante in Afghanistan in 2004, filed a lawsuit against the Associated Press Thursday, alleging that AP defamed,...

A spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary said Wednesday that 20 sex offenders and violent criminals will be executed by hanging over the next few days. Among the condemned are at least 15 arrested in May during a...

The Iraqi government has shown sufficient progress in its efforts to develop a constitutional review process, but is not making satisfactory progress in passing laws on the distribution of oil revenues and de-Baathification reform, according to the Initial Benchmark...

A Moscow court Thursday initiated preliminary hearings for exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky who is accused of embezzling millions from Russian national airline Aeroflot , granting Berezovsky's court-appointed lawyer a two-week postponement of...

US Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and a bipartisan group of cosponsors Wednesday proposed a new piece of anti-pollution legislation that is supported by some of the country's largest coal-burning companies and their...

EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini rejected targeted assassinations of terror suspects in an interview with the Financial Times Deutschland Thursday, adding that he is personally against all forms of the death...