Serbia will arrest wanted war crimes fugitive Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic and transfer him to the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague within the year, President Boris Tadic ...

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash) announced Friday he will ask the US Supreme Court to rule on whether he had a First Amendment right to turn over an illegally taped telephone call conversation to the media...

The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) has increased to approximately $100,000 a month the funds available for former Liberian president Charles Taylor to defend himself in his ongoing...

US military prosecutors have filed an appeal against a military judge's decision to dismiss charges against Guantanamo detainee Omar Ahmed Khadr , according to the Department of Defense (DOD) Friday. In late June, Judge Peter...

A Bangladeshi court jailed UN human rights expert Sigma Huda Thursday, pending a trial over allegations connecting her to a government corruption case . Prosecutors allege Huda assisted her husband, former Bangladeshi communications minister...

Alien Detention Standards: Telephone Access Problems Were Pervasive at Detention Facilities; Other Deficiencies Did Not Show a Pattern of Noncompliance, Government Accountability Office, July 6, 2007 [finding that the total number of aliens detained annually for immigration violations jumped from...

Russia expressed displeasure with the UK Friday over British refusal to prosecute exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky for his calls to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin . Berezovsky, who has been living in the...

Response of the US Department of Justice to the Declaration of a former Combatant Status Review Tribunal officer, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 6, 2007 [denying allegations made by a US Army officer that...

The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court on Friday convicted former Pharmaceutical Registration Department Director Cao Wenzhuan of corruption and dereliction of duty for receiving approximately $316,000 in bribes from two pharmaceutical companies in exchange for certifying...

American Civil Liberties Union, et al. v. National Security Agency, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, July 6, 2007 [rejecting an ACLU lawsuit challenging the federal government's domestic surveillance program on the grounds that the plaintiffs...