A Turkish court on Monday charged nine lawyers for membership in an outlawed group under Turkey's anti-terrorism laws. The lawyers, including some human rights advocates , are accused of being associated with the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (RPLP)...

The Philippines on Tuesday notified China that it is seeking international arbitration to declare Chinese claims to the majority of the South China Sea illegal and invalid. Philippines Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario stated in...

Charles Ble Goude , the former Ivory Coast Minister for Sports and Youth and close political ally of ex-president Laurent Gbagbo , was charged Tuesday with war crimes and murder. Goude has been in hiding since...

Prisoners in some Afghan-run detention facilities are still being beaten and tortured, according to an annual report released Sunday by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) . UNAMA interviewed 635 conflict-related detainees in detention facilities...

The Sri Lankan Parliament on Tuesday voted 110-33 in favor of legislation extending the detention time for suspects arrested by police from 24 to 48 hours. Under the newly-amended law, titled, "Code of Criminal Procedure...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor on Tuesday began his appeal in The Hague against his conviction and 50-year sentence for war crimes committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone . Taylor's...

US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday dismissed an appeal by Arab Bank, PLC from an order imposing discovery sanction for lack of jurisdiction in a lawsuit brought against the bank under...

A lawyer for former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced Monday that a criminal investigation has been initiated against him. The criminal investigation against Serhiy Vlasenko involves alleged car theft, robbery and...

A Milan court on Monday set a timetable for hearings in the underage sex trial of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi , setting the last session of the trial for early March, two weeks...

The second International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday sentenced to death 64-year-old televangelist Abul Kalam Azad, also known as "Bachchu Razakar," for crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War ....