UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer on Wednesday blasted the US for denying Guantanamo Bay detainees adequate access to the judicial system. In a speech delivered in Sydney, Australia, on "The...

Kingdom of Spain v United Kingdom, Case C-145/04, European Court of Justice, September 12, 2006 [ruling upholding a UK law that extends the right to vote in European Parliament elections to residents of Gibraltar, the tiny British overseas territory at...

US Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty expressed support at a Senate hearing Tuesday for a Department of Justice (DOJ) policy that encourages corporations to turn over confidential records to officials investigating corporate fraud [JURIST news...

Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis granted amnesty to 263 prisoners on Tuesday, including full clemency for 237, reduced sentences for 15 and commuting of the death penalty for 11. President Woldegiorgis described the unprecedented amnesty as motivated by...

Eight former police and military officers have been indicted by a Uruguayan court on counts of kidnapping and conspiracy committed during Uruguay's military dictatorship of 1973-85 . The crimes relate to the 1976 disappearances of five members of...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) sentenced a former Rwandan army officer to 25 years in prison on Tuesday on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity connected to the...

An Israeli military court Tuesday ordered the release of 21 Palestinian lawmakers, including three cabinet ministers, who were detained following the Hamas capture of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit in Gaza in June. Prosecutors are appealing...

International human rights groups have denounced China's release of new media regulations governing the domestic release of news and information by foreign news agencies. The regulations, which give China's official Xinhua News Agency ultimate rights of...

US District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Canadian oil and gas producer Talisman Energy aided genocide in order to access oil...

A Kurdish witness testifying Tuesday in the resumed genocide trial of Saddam Hussein described how Iraqi troops bombed his village outside the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya in 1988 and of how he fled to...