Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri on Tuesday boycotted his pretrial hearing at the facility. Al-Nashiri is accused of bombing the USS Cole while it was in port in...

United Nations (UN) independent human rights experts on Monday urged Colombian authorities to reconsider proposed constitutional reforms affecting the military criminal law. Eleven experts, comprising the Special Procedures mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council [official...

Egyptian Prosecutor-General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud on Monday ordered an investigation into allegations of forgery during the recent presidential elections. The order came after former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Shafiq alleged that ballots were forged and votes were...

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Monday urged all parties in Guinea-Bissau to resolve their differences peacefully. The call came amid a recent attack on the country's army...

The Dane County Circuit Court on Monday denied Wisconsin Attorney General JB Van Hollen's request to delay invalidating certain provisions of a controversial law limiting the collective bargaining rights of...

Iran hanged ten men on Monday despite requests from the United Nations (UN) and Amnesty International (AI) to stay the executions. According to the Iranian judiciary those who were killed were...

A Bahrain appeals court upheld verdicts against two teachers on Sunday for organizing a teachers' strike early last year to support anti-government protests . At their first hearing in front of a military tribunal, the pair were...

The UK Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday are scheduled to hear the lawsuit of a Pakistani citizen who sued the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in order to discover the extent and lawfulness of...

A court in Abruzzo, Italy, on Monday found that six Italian scientists and an ex-government official were negligent in their evaluation of the dangers posed by a 2009 earthquake that killed more than 300 people in the town of...

Former Philippines President and current Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has filed a bill seeking to allow the country's Department of Justice to grant "medical parole" to sick inmates....