A Chilean court Thursday sentenced a retired general to 15 years in prison for his role in the 1974 disappearance of a political dissident. General Manuel Contreras , the secret police chief under former dictator Augusto Pinochet [JURIST...

The US House Judiciary Committee Thursday called upon former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to testify concerning any involvement in the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman [official profile; JURIST news...

Nepalese police detained more than 500 Tibetan monks, refugees, and other protesters near the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu Thursday as demonstrations continued against China's recent crackdown against pro-Tibet protests . Thursday's detentions follow a...

A Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge Thursday issued a temporary restraining order blocking Philadelphia from enforcing new gun control legislation that would have banned the sale of assault weapons, required...

Former Russian Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov was released from prison Thursday after a Moscow City Court suspended his sentence. Adamov was convicted on charges of fraud and abuse of office in...

A lawyer for Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia , sentenced in early April to over three years in prison on charges of inciting subversion of state power , said Thursday...

Two videotapes showing CIA officers interrogating al Qaeda suspects are likely not related to a federal case filed by a Guantanamo Bay detainee and thus not covered by a court order entered in that case directing the CIA to...

Martial law will be lifted in most of Thailand, new Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said Thursday. Sundaravej said that while the restrictions were no longer necessary after elections in December and the passage of the controversial...

Current Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) Thursday accused opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) [party website,...

The Iowa House voted 84-16 Wednesday to pass a bill that would require Iowa employers to verify within 10 business days of hiring a new employee that they are a legal US resident....