Parhat v. Gates, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, June 23, 2008 [ruling that the US government improperly designated a Chinese Uighur Muslim as an enemy combatant and that he should be released or transferred from Guantanamo...

The president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) wrote in a letter to the UN Monday that the Serbian government had failed to cooperate with Tribunal...

The US Supreme Court handed down three decisions Monday, including Rothgery v. Gillespie County , in which the Court ruled 8-1 that a person accused of a felony has the...

The Bolivian province of Tarija approved a referendum Sunday calling for greater autonomy, becoming the fourth of nine provinces to approve increased freedom from Bolivia's socialist government. The voting results in...

A division of the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance revoked the license of Iranian daily newspaper Tehran Emrouz Saturday for printing articles that criticized the policies of Iranian President...

A US military court in Iraq Sunday convicted  Alaa "Alex" Mohammad Ali , an Iraqi-Canadian translator working in the country, in connection with the February stabbing death of a fellow military contractor. The case is the first...

A spokesman for Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council has said that the country's recently-enacted amnesty law has resulted in charges being dropped against over 75,000 people with some 20,000 others being ordered freed from detention, according to Reuters...

Israeli soldiers regularly beat and abuse Palestinian detainees even after they have been arrested and no longer pose a threat, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) alleged in a report published...

The Italian judge presiding over the corruption trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his former lawyer David Mills said Friday accord to Reuters that hearings in the case will continue...

Serbian officials transferred former Bosnian Serb police commander Stojan Zupljanin to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Saturday after the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court...