The first trial of a defendant accused of involvement in "forced disappearances" during Guatemala's 36-year civil war opened Monday. Felipe Cusanero, a former member of a civilian paramilitary unit, is alleged to have been responsible for the...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) began the trial of Croatian general Ante Gotovina and two other militant commanders Tuesday. Gotovina, Ivan Cermak,...

US House Government Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) accused the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Monday of withholding information from the committee and threatened to take action to compel production of the requested...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued new guidelines Monday limiting the appointment of independent monitors to verify corporate compliance with deferred-prosecution agreements. The new guidelines, which prohibit corporations from hiring monitors with existing ties to the...

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak accused Nigeria's national police of widespread human rights violations Monday, telling the UN Human Rights Council that Nigerian police routinely tortured suspects during investigations. Nowak also deplored Nigeria's...

Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives, v. Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolten, US District Court for the District of Columbia, March 10, 2008 . Read the full text...

Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy filed an emergency motion Monday seeking to block a district court ruling finding her in contempt of court for refusing to disclose government sources who provided information about...

A Dutch appeals court Monday overturned the conviction of Dutch businessman Guus Kouwenhoven for violating a UN embargo against the government of former Liberian President Charles Taylor . In 2006, a lower court...

A German lawmaker has launched a challenge to the new EU reform treaty , properly known as the Treaty of Lisbon , asking that Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rule on whether it...

Registry officials at the International Criminal Court (ICC) met Monday with a delegation of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to discuss procedural matters regarding the prosecution of several LRA leaders. The...