Affaire Enciu et Lega c. Roumanie, European Court of Human Rights, February 8, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling...

Former Baathist military operations officer Rashid Hussein Mohammed claimed during his genocide trial before the Iraqi High Tribunal Thursday that he was just defending his country against Iran during the Anfal campaign of the...

The prosecutor in the genocide case against former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam announced Thursday that he is appealing last month’s sentence of life imprisonment , and will again push for the death...

Lawyers for the three recently re-charged Guantanamo detainees renewed their condemnation of new military commission rules Thursday, telling the Associated Press that the tight deadlines established by the rules will prevent extended investigation...

Iraq Deputy Health Minister Hakim Zamili has been arrested in an apparent security crackdown in Baghdad, according to a report by the US military Thursday. According to military officials, Zamili had been infiltrating...

Romania must return property it nationalized during the 1950s, or else pay overdue compensation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday. The judgment came...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has achieved marked success in bringing international war criminals to justice, chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte told a conference on Thursday. Del Ponte,...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-6 on Thursday to send a bill to the Senate floor which would permit US district courts to appoint temporary US Attorneys when those spots become vacant, reversing a...

US Marine Cpl. Trent Thomas withdrew his guilty plea in the second day of his sentencing hearing Thursday on unpremeditated murder charges stemming from the alleged murder of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in the...

The European Commission (EC) unveiled a mandatory CO2 emissions strategy Wednesday that would impose mandatory carbon dioxide (CO2) limits on all cars by 2012. Today's average European car emits approximately 160...