The Constitutional Court of Turkey ruled Thursday in favor of the constitutionality of proposed changes to the electoral system that would allow for the president to be elected by popular vote. The ruling Justice and Development Party...

Former US Army germ-warfare researcher Dr. Steven J. Hatfill , named a "person of interest" by the FBI in its investigations of anthrax mailings shortly after the 2001 Sept. 11 attacks [JURIST news...

A Court in London sentenced Younis Tsouli and two accomplices to prison Thursday for collaborating on websites that advocated terrorism. Tsouli, along with Tariq al-Daourm and Waseem Mughal, used the sites to promote terrorist actions and distribute...

Former Australian High Court chief justice Sir Gerard Brennan Wednesday denounced anti-terrorism laws being used to detain an Indian doctor believed to be connected to last week's attempted terror attacks in...

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told Japan's Kyodo News Thursday that he will not return to Thailand to face charges of corruption unless he can be sure that his...

The government of Turkmenistan published a law defining the president's powers and duties for the first time in Turkmenistani history Wednesday. The law, printed in the official state newspaper, gives the president the power to appoint the...

The trial of former police chaplain Christian Von Wernich began Thursday in Argentina , where the Roman Catholic priest is alleged to have been involved in human rights abuses including torture and murder during...

The Turkish criminal justice system continues to tolerate and condone the use of torture and ill-treatment by police and investigators despite the government's official "zero tolerance for torture" policy, according to a report released Thursday by...

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Thursday filed an urgent motion seeking to move the trial of former Bosnian army commander Rasim Delic ...

Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim Thursday appealed a lower court judge's decision dismissing his defamation suit against former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in connection with renewed allegations that Anwar is homosexual....