Over 100 Muslim Brotherhood members were detained by Egyptian police Sunday, continuing the ruling government's persecution of party members. According to a source from the Interior Ministry, these latest arrests were in response to planned demonstrations by...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is urging French prosecutors to open a judicial inquiry into allegations that CIA-operated rendition flights stopped at French airports. A local French prosecutor has already opened a...

Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been hospitalized in Russia after being stabbed in the face by another prisoner while he slept, Khodorkovsky's lawyer Yury Schmidt said Saturday. The injury to Khodorkovsky's...

The Spanish Supreme Court has overturned the convictions of three men found guilty last year of collaborating with or belonging to al Qaeda in connection with the Sept. 11 terror attacks [JURIST news...

Belarus opposition politician and former foreign economic relations minister Mikhail Marinich was released from prison Friday, after having served nearly two years of a two and a half year sentence. Arrested in April 2004...

Eight thousand pro-democracy protesters assembled in Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu Saturday in the largest demonstration against the rule of King Gyanendra since the current round of protests began over a week...

Pointing to a letter written by lawyers representing Zacarias Moussaoui and a motion filed with the court by federal public defenders who represented Richard Reid , the so-called "shoe bomber," US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema on Friday...

US District Judge Sarah Evans Barker of the Southern District of Indiana issued an opinion Friday upholding a 2005 law enacted by the Indiana General Assembly that requires...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a 2-1 decision Friday ruled that a Los Angeles ordinance that subjects the homeless to arrest if they are caught "sitting, lying or...

Lawyers familiar with the case of former University of South Florida computer science professor Sami al-Arian said Friday that the Kuwait-born Palestinian activist had agreed to a deal with federal prosecutors in which he would...