The Canada Military Police Complaints Commission (MPCC) on Wednesday announced that it would make recommendations to improve military police investigations based on its four-year investigation into allegations of misconduct in handling Afghan detainees. The MPCC...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked the US District Court for the District of Arizona to reject the request by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to dismiss the lawsuit...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday ordered the country's new prime minister to reopen the investigation against President Asif Ali Zardari . With the order, the court gave Raja Pervez Ashraf, the new...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Wednesday denied a request by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue a temporary injunction barring Florida from continuing the...

The Turkish ruling party plans to abolish the special courts used in coup and terrorism trials, Reuters reported Wednesday. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) plans to present a reform package including...

Lawyers for alleged 9/11 conspirator and Guantanamo Bay detainee Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on Tuesday revealed that they have asked a UN official to investigate allegations of torture. Mohammed reportedly confessed...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) alleging that they violated...

The Ethiopian Federal High Court convicted 24 journalists, political opposition leaders and others under the country's Anti-Terrorism Proclamation of 2009 , Human Rights Watch reported on Wednesday. The human rights group...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday announced the launching of its Torture Database , a collection of more than 100,000 Bush-era documents recording "rendition, detention, and interrogation policies and practices." The database was...

The Rwandan government has helped to create armed groups including M23, which has been conducting a mutiny in North Kivu Province under the leadership of a particularly notorious group of human rights violators, and supplied them with weapons, armor...