Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday said that criminal defamation charges against four critics would be dropped after he received letters from the four apologizing for the incident. Hun Sen faced increasing international...

A federal judge on Monday ruled that the US Department of Defense must release the names of detainees being held as enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay . District Judge Jed Rakoff rejected...

US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito is expected to take the first step toward confirmation Tuesday, with an already apparent approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee . All ten Republicans on the committee have announced...

AP is reporting that the Iraqi High Criminal Court trying ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and co-defendants for crimes against humanity has canceled its session scheduled for Tuesday and has instead set January 29 as the...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, the Democratic Republic of Congo will hold the chairmanship of the African Union (AU) for 2006 under an agreement reached by a five-nation panel assigned to develop a compromise to the tense standoff...

A Council of Europe report released Tuesday argues that not only did alleged secret prisons run by the CIA in Europe exist, but that many European governments knew of the prisons and 'turned a blind eye'....

A Russian court in Moscow has ordered that the financial assets of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev be seized to pay alleged back taxes and fines for the Yukos oil company. Yukos [corporate...

US Army Corrections System: Procedures for Military Executions, US Army, January 17, 2006 . Read the full text of the regulations . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

What American Intelligence and Especially the NSA have been Doing to Defend the Nation, National Press Club, Deputy Director of National Intelligence General Michael Hayden, January 23, 2006 . Read...

The US Army has issued new regulations governing the military death penalty . What the Army is calling a "major revision", however, raises questions whether the military is considering its first execution since 1961, when Army...