Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Monday moved forward with plans for a national referendum on the country's 2006 presidential election. Last week, the Colombian High Court ruled that a legal...

The Pakistani constitution must be amended in order to reinstate the judges who were ousted last year by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf , Pakistani Law and Justice Minister Farooq H. Naik said Sunday. He said...

Unknown bombers made unsuccessful assassination attempts on the lives of five Iraqi appeals court judges Monday. The five judges - Ali al-Alaq, Suleiman Abdullah, Ghanim Janab, Alaa al-Timimi, and Hassan Fouad - are all members of the al-Rasafa Court...

A German man's right to a fair trial was not violated by police torture threats, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Monday. In 2003, Magnus Gaefgen was convicted of kidnapping and killing a...

Thana Tansiri, a lawyer for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra , began serving a six-month prison sentence Monday for his role in an attempt to bribe officials overseeing a corruption case against...

Iran's Revolutionary Court sentenced an Iranian electronics salesman to death Monday after convicting him of espionage, according to a state media report . Ali Ashtari, who was arrested last year, was charged with using his sales connections in...

The Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) will not prosecute politician Geert Wilders for his video and printed statements against the Quran and Islam because the statements are not punishable under anti-discrimination...

Malaysian opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim filed a lawsuit  on Monday against a former aide who had accused him of sodomy on Saturday.  In the lawsuit, Anwar said that the aide's allegations against...

The US House Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey for documents relating to the Valerie Plame leak scandal and other Committee investigations. The Committee specifically...

International leaders and human rights groups have criticized last Friday's presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe , calling the elections unfair and characterizing the government of newly sworn-in president Robert Mugabe as...