The Saudi Arabia Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that the government has freed eighteen former Guantanamo Bay detainees "after meeting necessary legal conditions." A spokesperson for the ministry stated that the government will continue to try...

The Russian Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a sentence of life imprisonment for Nurpashi Kulayev, the only terrorist survivor convicted in connection with the 2004 Beslan school siege . Kulayev filed the appeal [JURIST...

British troops supported by Iraqi forces raided a Basra prison unit early Monday morning, freeing 127 prisoners detained in squalid conditions by a rogue Basra police squad suspected of torturing its prisoners. Following the raid,...

The appeals chamber of the Iraqi High Tribunal has affirmed Saddam Hussein's death sentence for crimes against humanity committed in the Iraqi town of Dujail in 1982. A spokesperson...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected the new federal rules for smog reduction on Friday, stating that the Environmental Protection Agency "has failed to heed the restrictions on its discretion...

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Iran's parliament has voted to review the terms of the country's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , the UN's nuclear watchdog, following a weekend approval of sanctions ]JURIST...

US Defense Department Administrative Review Boards (ARB) reviewing the status of prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay cleared 46 detainees for transfer to the custody of their home countries, according to new...

A recent UK Home Office report prepared for Prime Minister Tony Blair details the country's first increase in crime since the mid-1990s and predicts a massive 25% increase...

China's National People's Congress started debate Sunday on the seventh draft of a landmark private property bill intended to protect state, collective and private property . If passed, the legislation will be first bill...