A court in Uzbekistan has found 15 men guilty of terrorism, attempted overthrow of the government, hostage taking and murder. The defendants, who all pleaded guilty, were accused of leading an uprising ...

Capital Punishment 2004, US Department of Justice, November 13, 2005 [reporting that a dozen US states executed 59 prisoners in 2004, six less than in 2003 and 125 people convicted of murder received the death penalty, the smallest number since...

Courts in Spain, Italy and Germany are considering inquiries into CIA operations in Europe, specifically its rendition program, where suspected terrorists are kidnapped and sent to countries that will torture them. The Spanish investigation began in March when a...

New court documents have been released outlining potential arguments to be made during the penalty phase of proceedings against 9/11 suspect Zacarias Moussaoui . According to the transcript of an October hearing recently unsealed, prosecutors will argue...

Callixte Kalimanzira, Rwanda's interior minister during the 1994 genocide , pleaded not guilty to three counts of genocide and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday. Kalimanzira surrendered to the...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales promised his Australian counterpart Philip Ruddock Monday that Australian terror suspect David Hicks would receive a fair trial before a military commission , but refused to give...

Last week's ruling by the European Court of Human Rights upholding Turkey's ban on headscarves in public universities, has led to confrontation between the Islamic government and the law's secular proponents. Turkish...

US National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley refused to rule out the possibility that torture would be used to prevent a future terrorist attack, during an appearance Sunday on CNN's Late Edition, but maintained that the...

The UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) , in its second bi-monthly human rights report covering the period from September 1 to October 31, on Monday warned of human rights violations in Iraq ...

Two Bangladeshi judges were killed on Monday after a man threw a bomb at their car while the judges were on their way to the Jhalakathi district court, 155 miles south of Dhaka. Police said a young man has...