Reporter Rafig Tagi and editor Samir Huseinov, both of the newspaper Senet, went on trial Tuesday in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan for allegedly insulting Islam. Both claim the prosecution is...

Sudan on Tuesday attempted to prevent the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) from considering a report by a UNHRC team sent to investigate conditions in Darfur . The report , issued Monday, calls for...

High-ranking officials in the Australian government pressured the US government to reduce terror charges against Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks , according to a report in The Australian on Tuesday. Attorney General Philip Ruddock ...

A Turkish court Wednesday ordered telecom providers in the country to block access to YouTube because of videos insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk . The controversial videos have caused an uproar...

British Muslim Abdul Muhid was convicted in London Wednesday of two counts of inciting murder at a protest outside outside the Danish embassy in London last year. Muhid and associate Anjem Choudary were charged last...

A court in East Timor Wednesday found former Interior Minister Rogerio Lobato guilty of promoting violence during the military riots in the country last year. The three judges hearing the case sentenced Lobato to seven-and-a-half years...

US Army Specialist Agustin Aguayo was convicted of desertion Tuesday for fleeing a base in Germany to avoid redeployment to Iraq. Though the conviction could have carried as many as seven years in prison, Aguayo was only...

Philippines President Gloria Arroyo on Tuesday signed a rigorous new anti-terror bill into law. Among other provisions, the Human Security Act allows police to detain suspected terrorists for three days without charges, but it also...

Authorities in the volatile Chechnya region of Russia commonly use electrical shocks, forced confessions, and other forms of torture, said Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg...

A Nigerian appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Vice President Atiku Abubakar could not legally be stripped of his office after his break with President Olusegun Obasanjo . The pair were elected in 1999 at the...