China has approved stiffer penalties for people responsible for industrial accidents and white collar crimes, state media said on Friday. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) increased the maximum jail sentence from...
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Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy on Thursday were convicted of federal bribery and fraud charges . Siegelman was convicted on...
Lawyers for Omar Khadr , the Canadian citizen who is detained at Guantanamo Bay and charged with killing a US Special Forces soldier in Afghanistan, said Thursday they will seek his extradition to Canada....
The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday adopted a resolution endorsing the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance , which would require signatories to refrain from engaging in...
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has said that the ruling coalition government in the Netherlands will resign Friday after losing the support of one of the parties making up the coalition due to the...
Defense lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby have requested a one-month delay in the trial, which would push the scheduled start date back to February 12, 2007. Lead defense attorney Theodore V. Wells Jr....
Jordan should criminalize torture and end the use of special courts that protect accused police and intelligence officials, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak told a press conference following the conclusion of his two-day visit to...
The Arkansas Supreme Court Thursday struck down a regulatory provision barring same-sex couples from raising foster children, saying that it found no connection between homosexuality and child-rearing ability. The state child welfare agency had appealed a lower...
Ta Mok , the former military chief of the Khmer Rouge communist movement in Cambodia who was indicted for genocide in 1999, entered a hospital Thursday as his health continues to deteriorate since becoming...
The administration will work with Congress within the boundaries set by the Supreme Court in Thursday's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision to "determine whether or not the military tribunals will be an avenue in which to give [Guantanamo...
