Mexico's "scorched-earth" campaign in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in crimes against humanity, including genocide, torture, executions and disappearances, according to a draft report made public by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. The...

In a letter sent to President Bush Monday, 17 Democrats from the US House of Representatives called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate allegations that the National Security Agency conducted warrantless surveillance of US citizens...

Six law professors at Cambridge University have warned that an innocuous-sounding bill now going through Parliament would give UK government ministers the power to abolish jury trials, place citizens under house arrest, and rewrite the law on nationality and...

The American Bar Association has recommended a moratorium on the Georgia death penalty after an ABA panel study identified numerous flaws in the state criminal justice system that it claimed greatly compromised the fair administration...

US Army Sgt. Kevin D. Myricks was sentenced on Monday to six months in a military prison and a demotion in rank for his involvement in the beating of two detainees in his...

Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba has asked the African Union to intervene to halt criminal charges filed by Zambia in the United Kingdom. Chiluba contends that as a member of the...

Several family members and former employees of former Chilean president General Augusto Pinochet were indicted Monday on tax evasion charges. Judge Carlos Cerda issued arrest warrants for Pinochet's wife, four of his children, daughter-in-law,...

Newly-elected Bolivian president Evo Morales addressed the nation during his inauguration speech Sunday and promised to promote justice for indigenous Bolivian Indians, saying that they had been discriminated against and "never recognized as human...

The chief investigative judge for the Iraqi High Criminal Court (formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal ) announced Monday that judge Ra'uf Rashid will replace former chief judge Rizgar Muhammad Amin in the Saddam Hussein trial ....

Sudanese security forces released nearly 50 human rights delegates attending the African Union summit in Khartoum Monday. Members of the Sudanese Organization Against Torture , Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International and the International Bar...