A former Bosnian Serb official who testified against against Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died in prison in Sweden Saturday. Officials with the Swedish Prison and Probation Service told Reuters that 52 year old...

Conclusions and Recommendations of the Committee against Torture: Japan, UN Committee against Torture, May 21, 2007 [finding that Japan's justice system lacks sufficient safeguards from political interference, is lacking sufficient due process, and criticizing Japan's use of a statute of...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in three cases which will be heard next term. In Klein & Co. v. Board of Trade (06-1265) the court...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Monday upheld the life sentence of serial rapist Mikaeli "Mika" Muhimana . Muhimana, formerly a councilor for the western Rwandan province of Kibuyea, was...

Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament, removed outspoken parliamentarian Malalai Joya on Monday after she unfavorably compared the parliament to a stable. Joya's remarks, made during a private television interview, held...

Jumah Muhammad al-Dossari , a Bahraini detainee that has been held at Guantanamo Bay without charges since January 2002, threatened in a letter released Sunday by his lawyer that if he had "the opportunity ...

Harris Chowdhury, political secretary to former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia , was sentenced to three years incarceration on Monday on extortion and bribery charges. Chowdhury is the first senior political official of the former Bangladesh government,...

Pan-African Parliament officials said over the weekend that the recently approved investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe would be delayed. Zimbabwe has expressed strong opposition to the PAP...

The Indonesian attorney general's office announced Monday that it will reopen a corruption probe against Tommy Suharto , son of former President Haji Mohammad Suharto . The announcement, made by Director of Investigations Mohammad...

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in five argued cases Monday, including Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly , where the Court held that a plaintiff filing an antitrust...