The Appeals Chamber of the Iraqi High Tribunal on Tuesday upheld the death sentences of three defendants convicted for their roles in the slaughter of ten of thousands of Kurds during the 1988 Anfal campaign...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday released new documents describing crimes committed by US soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan which show a pattern of US troops failing to follow...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon denounced US immigration policies during his first state of the union address Sunday, promising to fight for the rights of Mexicans living in the US and protesting the "unilateral measures"...

The Supreme Court of Israel Tuesday ordered the Israeli government to redraw the route of its West Bank security barrier near the Palestinian village of Bilin within a "reasonable period." Bilin residents...

A Cambodian cabinet minister has said that the Cambodian government could "terminate" the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) if it "illegally" attempts to charge former King Norodom Sihanouk [official website; BBC...

Death sentences handed down by Chinese courts were at a ten-year low in 2006 and the trend continues in 2007, according to a Chinese Supreme Court justice quoted by state media Monday. In response to wrongful...

A Pakistani lawyers group Sunday announced a campaign to defeat an expected reelection bid by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf . Speaking at a conference of the National Action Committee in Islamabad, Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association president Munir...

The Bangkok Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Monday for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Pojamarn on charges of stock trading violations. Thaksin has been living in exile since a...

Bangladeshi officials on Monday arrested former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and her son on corruption and misuse of power charges, one day after another ex-PM was charged with taking bribes . Zia, who was in...

Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari , who was released on bail from Iranian custody in August, obtained a passport from Tehran and left Iran Sunday night for an unknown destination, according to her lawyer....