A Greek prosecutor launched an investigation on Monday to probe possible Greek involvement in the Srebrenica killings in Bosnia in 1995 . Several Bosnian Serbs have already been arrested for their roles. Many of the arrested were members of a paramilitary group alleged to be under the direct control of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic [...]

A Kenyan magistrate on Monday acquitted three men charged with conspiracy in connection with a 2002 suicide bombing at a hotel. The attack, which al-Qaida claimed responsiblity for, killed 15 people . Earlier, four other defendants were acquitted on charges of actually carrying out the bombing. The ruling marks the third high-profile terrorism case in [...]

Over 9 million people are now in prison worldwide and the number is growing, according to a new report by the London-based International Centre for Prison Studies . The statistical survey included convicts and persons held in pre-trial detention. The US, China, and Russia account for about half of the total, with the US holding [...]

Witness to Abuse Human Rights Abuses under the Material Witness Law since September 11, joint report by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union , June 26, 2005 . Excerpt: Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, at least seventy men living in the United States—all Muslim but one—have been thrust into a [...]

The US military is planning to expand the current Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca detention facilities in Iraq and build a third major facility in the north of the country to accommodate a growing number of Iraqi prisoners. Military officials say the existing prisons – now holding over 10,000 detainees – are nearing their maximum [...]

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday began hearing an appeal by Mukhtar Mai against the acqittal of five men who allegedly brutalized her in a gang-rape that attracted national and international attention and condemnation. Mai was raped in 2002, allegedly on the orders of a traditional village council after her younger brother offended the honor of [...]

The Iraqi Special Tribunal released silent footage Sunday from a judicial interrogation last week of six of Saddam Hussein's former lieutenants concerning the killing and deportation of Shiite Kurds and the repression of a Shiite revolt in 1991 after the first Gulf War. Saddam's half-brothers Barzan Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti and Watban Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti , [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch released a joint report Sunday claiming that the Bush administration has violated the material witness law by detaining nearly 70 terrorism suspects since September 11 without enough criminal evidence to keep them. All but one of the detainees were Muslims. The law permits witnesses who [...]

Hammam Hammoudi, head of the drafting committee for the permanent Iraqi constitution , has said that 80% of the draft is completed and he anticipates the August 15 target date will be met with a national ratification referendum to follow as scheduled in October. An arbitration committee has been created to deal with conflicting issues [...]

Legislation to criminalize sexual harassment was presented Sunday to the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress . The draft amendment to the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Rights and Interests of Women , designed to protect women's rights, mandates that no one shall be allowed to subject women [...]