Carla Del Ponte Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Thursday that former Serbian general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic is still...

The US military said Thursday that the number of detainees participating in hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay had reached its lowest point since October 2005, but offered no reasons for the dropoff. The number of hunger...

The Iraqi High Criminal Court (IHCC) (formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal ) confirmed Thursday that Sayeed al-Hamashi, who was selected to preside over the Saddam Hussein trial on Monday, will retain his position despite allegations...

The Human Rights Watch annual report released Wednesday alleges an increasing amount of human rights abuses in Iraq, including torture of detainees and attacks on civilians, and assigns some of the blame to the US and its...

The European Parliament announced on Wednesday that it would investigate claims that the CIA has been illegally detaining and torturing terrorism suspects in European countries or using European air bases as transit points to send...

In the final run-up to next Monday's Canadian federal election that is expected to bring his Conservative Party to power after 13 years in the political wilderness, leader Stephen Harper has backpedaled after suggesting that...

Memo on rendition and extraordinary rendition, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, December 2005 [concluding that while undertaking or cooperating with extraordinary rendition of terror suspects to countries where they could face a real risk of torture could never be legal...

The European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that Germany may not apply restrictions to workers from outside the European Union sent to Germany by European companies. The German law, passed last...

The non-partisan Congressional Research Service , the public-policy research arm of the Library of Congress , called the Bush administration's limited briefings on the NSA domestic spying program "inconsistent with the law" in a...

Lawyers for Tariq Aziz , the former Iraqi deputy prime minister under the Saddam Hussein regime, have asked Italy and Croatia to grant him asylum if Aziz is released from US detention....