The trial of Simon Bikindi began Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda with prosecutors accusing the popular singer of "us his fame to incite hatred" during the 1994 Rwandan...

Report of the Events Relating to Maher Arar, Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, September 18, 2006 [concluding that Canadian officials did not play a role in the US decision to detain...

Canada's Arar Commission , the official judicial inquiry into the circumstances under which Canadian Maher Arar was detained in the US in 2002 and removed to Syria where Arar says he was tortured, concluded...

Clarence Hill , a convicted murderer on death row in Florida , filed a petition Monday asking the US Supreme Court to stay his execution scheduled for Wednesday. The petition follows Friday's decision [opinion,...

France will grant amnesty to 6,924 illegal immigrants with school-age children, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy announced Monday. Even though thousands more had applied for amnesty [JURIST...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told a press conference Monday that specification of banned interrogation methods in military commissions legislation drafted by the Bush administration currently under consideration in Congress is...

A Serbian war crimes court on Monday sentenced Anton Lekaj , a former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army , to 13 years in prison for the murder of four Kosovo gypsies, as well as several instances of...

The European Data Protection Supervisor , the European Union's data watchdog official, on Monday condemned a now-voided agreement between the EU and the US forcing European airlines to share passenger data with US authorities for transatlantic...

The second Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad Monday with more testimony from prosecution witnesses in the case involving the "Anfal" operation that killed 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. One former Kurdish...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told delegates at the opening of the second session of the UN Human Rights Council Monday that the Council should pay more attention to the Darfur...