A UK High Court judge ruled Tuesday that British Guantanamo Bay detainee Shaker Aamer must have access to secret documents that may contain evidence of torture. Aamer, the only British citizen remaining at the US military...

Human rights conditions in 12 Arab nations continued to deteriorate last year, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) . The publication, entitled "Bastion...

A judge on the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Tuesday reduced the sentences of two men convicted of spying for Cuba as part of the so-called "Cuban Five" . Judge...

The US government announced Tuesday that a settlement agreement worth more than $3.4 billion has been reached in a 13-year class action lawsuit concerning the US government's alleged mismanagement of...

Order on the Application at the ECCC of the Form of Liability known as Joint Criminal Enterprise, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, December 9, 2009 [allowing the use of the controversial legal concept of joint criminal enterprise to...

Sacribey v. Guccione, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, December 9, 2009 .Reported in JURIST's Paper...

Ohio prison officials on Tuesday conducted the first execution using a new single-drug lethal injection protocol. Death row inmate Kenneth Biros was executed after the US Supreme Court rejected a last-minute stay application Tuesday morning....

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases related to "honest services" fraud. In Black v. United States , the Court...

The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee voted 7-6 Monday in favor of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. This is the first time that any body in the state legislature...

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday urged Philippine authorities to establish a timetable to end the martial law declared in its southern province of Maguindanao and to dismantle paramilitary groups throughout the nation. Philippines President Gloria...