Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of human rights abuses for allegedly ordering the 1992 murder of 25 people, including a professor and nine students at the so-called La...

The Iraqi government is mulling pardons for several thousand convicted insurgents, Iraqi government officials said Monday. A committee is being formed to draw up guidelines for issuing the pardons, including which offenses would be eligible for pardons and whether...

Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black was sentenced in a US federal court in Chicago Monday to 78 months in prison and ordered to pay $125,000 and forfeit another $1 million for...

The Supreme Court of Chile on Wednesday upheld an appeals court decision to drop embezzlement charges brought against the widow and five sons of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet . The...

The UN General Assembly Third Committee Wednesday approved a draft resolution imploring the government of Belarus to uphold its "obligation to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil...

Abdelhaleem Ashqar, a former associate professor of business at Howard University in Washington DC who was one of three men indicted in 2004 by a US federal grand jury on charges of engaging in a 15-year conspiracy...

The White House must preserve all of its e-mail records by saving back-up disks, United States District Court Judge Henry Kennedy ordered Monday. The order was a blow to the Bush administration, which has been...

Pakistani lawyers began returning to work in some of the country's lower courts Monday, one week after thousands of lawyers and law students protested against President Pervez Musharraf's proclamation of emergency rule , suspension of the constitution and...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told parliament Monday that the government was planning to release 400 more Palestinian prisoners later this month, adding to the release last month of more than 80 Palestinian prisoners. The...

Indonesian prosecutors on Monday announced the breakdown of court-ordered settlement negotiations with lawyers representing Tommy Suharto , son of former President Haji Mohammad Suharto . Indonesian law requires that parties try mediation to resolve...