By the Numbers: Findings of the Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project, New York University Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, April 26, 2006 [reporting that at least 600 US troops have been linked...

Chinese Internet journalist Yang Tianshui, a member of China's chapter of International PEN , an association that promotes freedom of speech, faces up to 15 years in jail on charges that he attempted to "subvert state power" by...

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said Thursday that he is considering proposing legislation that would suspend funding for the NSA domestic surveillance program if the Bush...

American-educated Saudi and alleged al Qaeda suspect Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi denied before a pre-trial military commission hearing at Guantanamo Bay Thursday that he was guilty of war crimes , but...

Several US states, cities, and environmental groups led by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit Thursday against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US Court of Appeals for...

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 4-3 Thursday that it is constitutional for a judge to require a convicted sex offender to turn over DNA samples to the Canadian National DNA Data Bank , even...

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Thursday rejected a motion to dismiss criminal charges against former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in connection with the leak of former...

Over one-third of documents held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that have been removed from public access since 1999 should not have been reclassified, according to an audit conducted by...

China has not overlooked human rights abuses in its quest to find energy sources for its growing economy, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Spokesman Qin Gang said China emphasized peace, cooperation and...

Leading Belarusian opposition figure Alexander Milinkevich was arrested Wednesday along with other demonstrators at a rally in Minsk, according to activists. About 7,000 opposition members gathered for what is traditionally the largest rally of the...