A former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge criticized US President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program Saturday in an address to the American Library Association's annual convention in Washington. The program has allowed the...

Ali Hassan al-Majid - Saddam Hussein's cousin known to the Western media as "Chemical Ali" - and two other Hussein regime officials received death sentences Sunday for the slaughter of tens of thousands of...

Hundreds of supporters of suspended Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry gathered in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore Saturday, showering Chaudhry with rose petals as he prepared to depart to the city of...

EU leaders reached an agreement on a proposed constitutional treaty following two days of tough negotiations early Saturday, compromising to reach a deal which will be the basis for the Intergovernmental Conference to author the text...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) began judicial proceedings Friday in the trial of Rwandan Catholic priest Hormisdas Nsengimana , who is indicted on four counts including genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide,...

The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) at Guantanamo Bay were pressured to declare detainees "enemy combatants" based on vague or incomplete evidence, according to a Friday affidavit filed with a DC appeals court by a...

UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith announced Friday that he will resign his post effective next week. Goldsmith, who leaves just as Tony Blair steps down after 10 years as Prime Minister, said that...

European leaders continued to grapple Friday with disagreements over a proposed EU constitution treaty on the second day of the summit meeting in Brussels. Britain threatened to veto a watered-down version of...

A terror suspect believed to be associated with senior al Qaeda leaders and related terrorist groups in Afghanistan was transferred to Guantanamo Bay Friday. The US Department of Defense (DOD) says that...

The Poisoned Chalice: A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper on the Decision of the Iraqi High Tribunal in the Dujail Case, Human Rights Watch, June 22, 2007 [finding that the Iraqi High Tribunal's judgment in the Dujail case contained serious...