A "legal framework" is needed to enforce existing international laws against piracy , Adm. Thad Allen , Commandant of the US Coast Guard , said in an interview on ABC's "This...

Human rights activists in Russia are being attacked with greater frequency, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin said Wednesday in an interview with Vesti television . Lukin was responding to the recent...

The government of Bangladesh said Tuesday it is working with the UN to organize war crimes prosecutions for alleged violations stemming from the country's 1971 War of Independence against Pakistan [JURIST...

Officials in Malaysia on Sunday announced the release of 13 people who were detained under the country's controversial Internal Security Act (ISA) , in a move called for Friday by Prime Minister Najib...

The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on Friday called on the government of Rwanda to investigate reports of killings during and after the uprising by the Rwandan Patriotic Army to end the 1994 genocide...

A lawyer for former Khmer Rouge leader Kaing Guek Eav argued Wednesday that judges in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) should release Kaing, also known as...

The Israeli Cabinet voted in a meeting Sunday to deny Hamas prisoners privileges not required by law, such as education, entertainment and some visitation. The move, recommended by Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann [official profile; JURIST...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Sunday for the US and Yemen to agree on a repatriation plan that provides "meaningful legal process" for the nearly 100 Yemeni detainees still at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington  Monday ordered the revision of a US government regulation  that singles out religious workers applying for permanent residency. Judge Robert Lasnik...

Lawyers for five Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay on Friday moved to have Defense Secretary Robert Gates held in contempt after...