Iranian judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi has issued a decree barring judges from ordering the detention of suspects without the filing of formal charges, Iranian media reported Wednesday. Currently, the Iranian Constitution allows suspects to be held for...

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrested former Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI) leader Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui on Wednesday on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges and transferred him to...

The lower house of the Canadian parliament passed a new security certificates bill Wednesday by a margin of 196-71 . The House of Commons introduced the bill in October in response to last year's Supreme...

The federal judge presiding over the trial of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was seeking information about the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah around the time the CIA destroyed videotapes of the interrogations...

A federal judge rejected an argument Wednesday by US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) that an indictment against him unconstitutionally violated the Speech or Debate Clause , saying that Jefferson has "focused immunity"...

Guantanamo Bay commander US Navy Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby confirmed the existence of a secret camp at the detention facility for alleged al-Qaeda members classified as "high-value detainees" in an interview with AP Wednesday. Buzby said...

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey Wednesday preliminarily approved a proposed amendment to the country's constitution that would ease a current ban on Islamic headscarves and allow women to wear headscarves in universities. The...

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak sharply criticized the White House Wednesday for defending the use of waterboarding , calling the practice "absolutely unacceptable under international human rights law." Nowak's comments, as...

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday said he supports allowing UK courts to hear some evidence obtained through wiretap surveillance , telling parliament that the long-time prohibition against wiretap evidence should be lifted in situations where "key...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Wednesday that the trial of former Croatian general Ante Gotovina and two other military commanders will begin March...