A Chilean judge rejected a request by Peru Wednesday seeking the extradition of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori , who has been charged in his former country with corruption...

Iran has opened an investigation into the judge who ordered the stoning execution of a man convicted of adultery , the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported Wednesday. According to ISNA, an unnamed judicial...

The Rwandan senate has approved a bill to abolish the death penalty , according to Wednesday reports by Radio Rwanda. The bill, proposed last year by Rwandan President Paul Kagame with the support...

A lawyer for US Army Spc. Mario Lozano , who is being tried in absentia for the murder of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari and attempted murders of agent...

The Serbian Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the 40 year prison sentence of Milorad Ulemek , according to Belgrade media reports. Ulemek was a paramilitary commander under Slobodan Milosevic who...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Tuesday condemned the recent execution by stoning of an Iranian man convicted of adultery, saying the execution was in violation of international law . As a party to...

Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba Monday challenged the $58 million (USD) fine imposed upon him last month by a London judge, asking a Zambian court to throw out the fine because the UK...

The government of Zimbabwe has arrested more than 1300 shop owners and managers who refused to comply with price controls imposed more than two weeks ago , according to Monday police reports. On June 26,...

The constitutional scholars who drafted the interim Palestinian constitution spoke out against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Monday, saying that although Abbas had the right to dismiss former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh [BBC...

An English court Monday found four men guilty for plotting the failed bomb attacks on London's subway and bus systems on July 21, 2005, two weeks after a similar attack killed 52 people....