In an interview with Reuters reported Monday, Chief Justice Rizgar Mohammed Amin of the Iraqi High Criminal Court , also known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal, trying Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants played down security...

The war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic has been further delayed due to Milosevic's poor health, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Judge Patrick Robinson announced Monday. The trial was set...

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Monday denied that the US Central Intelligence Agency has maintained any covert prisons in the country and has offered to allow investigations of two military bases used by the US...

Ukraine's Justice Minister Serhiy Holovatiy Monday appealed a Friday court ruling that reinstated Svyatoslav Piskun as Ukraine's prosecutor general. Piskun was fired by President Viktor Yushchenko , allegedly for investigating the finances of Yushchenko's wife [JURIST...

Lawyers for Abu Bakar Bashir , an Indonesian Muslim cleric implicated in the 2002 Bali bombings , said Monday that they will ask that his case be reviewed. Bashir is accused of being the spiritual leader of...

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak arrived in China Monday for a two week trip, which will include visits to Chinese detention centers in Beijing, Tibet and the Muslim region of Xinjiang....

The Bush administration is urging Bosnian leaders to revise its constitution in time for Tuesday's commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Dayton Accord ending the Bosnian war. As the EU starts negotiations to prepare Bosnia...

Fifty-six defendants appeared in a Spanish court Monday to face charges that they were members of organizations which supported the Basque separatist group ETA , or Euskadi Ta Askatasuna. Various organizations are believed to have provided financial, political,...

Kyrgyzstan Prosecutor General Kambaraly Kongantiyev told the country's Security Council Monday that the nation is on the verge of anarchy which could result in the loss of state control if authorities fail to deal with organized...

Kenyans voted Monday in a referendum on a new constitution . Voters came out amid fears that violence might overshadow the voting process, viewed as a dress rehearsal for the 2007 election. The vote...