Some 50,000 detainees held by Iraqi and US authorities in Iraqi could be freed by the end of 2008, an Iraqi official said Sunday. Iraqi national security advisor Muwafaq al-Rubaei said that 24,000 detainees held in facilities run by...

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has suspended the country's attorney general on charges of corruption and established a three-person tribunal to investigate the charges. Officials charged Attorney General Sobusa Gula-Ndebele in November with acting contrary to or inconsistent...

The chairman of one of Pakistan's two leading opposition groups said Sunday that his party would seek to reverse constitutional amendments unilaterally promulgated by President Pervez Musharraf in association with his lifting of emergency rule ...

Malaysian police detained 21 lawyers, activists and opposition figures Sunday after nationwide raids in response to continuing demonstrations against the country's government. The police arrested 12 members of an opposition coalition for participating in a November 10 rally for...

A lawyer for the first "high-value" Guantanamo Bay detainee to be allowed to meet privately with attorneys told AP Saturday that his client had been "subjected to state-sanctioned torture" in secret overseas CIA prisons. J. Wells Dixon ...

The US Department of Justice and the CIA Inspector General announced Saturday they will conduct a joint preliminary investigation into the destruction of videotaped recordings of two terror suspects in 2005, which could then lead to a...

The Japanese House of Councillors passed a bill Wednesday to end Japan's air force mission in Iraq, with opposition leaders insisting that Japan should work through the United Nations rather than the United States. Japan withdrew its...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ruled Wednesday that former Croatian general Ante Gotovina must remain in detention in The Hague until his trial. The court...

A Vietnamese court on Tuesday reduced the prison terms of two human rights lawyers sentenced for spreading propaganda against the state. The lawyers, Nguyen Van Dai, 38, and Le Thi Cong Nhan, 28, were not released from custody, but...

Senegalese prosecutors will begin an investigation into former Chadian president Hissene Habre within months so that Habre can face trial for alleged torture and mass killings in Senegal in the 1980s, victims' lawyers said...