The UK military is investigating allegations surrounding the 2004 deaths of 22 Iraqi detainees who may have been in UK custody and the alleged torture of nine other detainees, officials said Thursday after a court-imposed gag order on the...

Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black lost his bid Thursday to remain free on bail pending the appeal of his July conviction on mail fraud and obstruction of justice charges....

Hundreds of judges and lawyers in El Salvador marched to the Supreme Court of Justice on Thursday to protest challenges that the Attorney General has made to the rulings of four judges. Last week,...

Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia has been formally arrested and charged with inciting subversion of state power, his lawyer said Friday. His lawyer said that Hu's father had been allowed to visit Hu in jail recently, marking the...

The US military has charged a Guantanamo Bay detainee with attempted murder and intentionally causing serious bodily harm, the Defense Department said Thursday. Mohammed Jawad , an Afghan national, allegedly threw a grenade...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee approved a 29 percent pay raise for all federal judges Thursday by a margin of 10-7. If passed by Congress, the Federal Judicial Salary Restoration Act of 2007 would...

US District Judge Paul Huck ruled Thursday that former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega will remain in the US until all appeals relating to an extradition request by France have been exhausted. Earlier this month,...

Elouise Pepion Cobell, et al., v. Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, January 30, 2008 [ruling that the US Department of the Interior unreasonably delayed the accounting of billions of...

Thousands of lawyers held rallies across Pakistan on Thursday, protesting the ouster of Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry and other superior court judges last November when Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule ...

Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi said Thursday that he is opposed to a proposed law that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's defunct Baath Party to be reinstated to...