German Federal Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries said at a press conference Monday that Germany will attempt to make denial of the World War II-era Holocaust in which millions of Jews died at the hands...

The number of detainees on hunger-strike at Guantanamo Bay has increased this month to 11 from five as the detention center's fifth anniversary approaches on Thursday. US military spokesman have in the past insisted that...

Lawyers for Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former chief judge of Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era Revolutionary Court, and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti , the two Saddam Hussein co-defendants sentenced to...

British judges have rejected a UK government proposal that government ministers say would simplify sentencing and increase judicial discretion in dealing with serious criminals, calling it a "kneejerk reaction" to an earlier sentencing scandal over the possibility...

A federal judge Monday sentenced a Pakistani man to 30 years in prison after he was convicted of conspiring to bomb a New York City subway station in retaliation for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu...

The US Senate Monday unanimously approved lifting a freeze on pay increases for federal judges. The freeze was imposed last month when a bill was passed by Congress to halt yearly cost-of-living raises for...

The voices of Saddam Hussein and his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid , known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali", were heard discussing the use of chemical weapons to kill thousands in audio tapes played...

A.A. v. B.B. and C.C., Ontario Court of Appeal, January 2, 2006 [ruling that a Canadian child can legally have three parents (two mothers and a father), giving the non-biological mother authority to make decisions for the child in the...

A staff attorney with the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps who was accused in August 2006 of leaking detainee names while stationed at Guantanamo Bay was ordered Monday to face court-martial...

Illegal immigrants in the US who have been arrested and released within US borders appear to exhibit a markedly high rate of reincarceration, according to a report released by the US Department of Justice on...