Russian prosecutors have released two of the 10 suspects who were arrested Monday in connection with last October's killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya , and a third person is no...

Lawyers for the North Carolina Medical Board argued in court Wednesday that a lawsuit filed against them earlier this year by the North Carolina State Department of Corrections was filed prematurely and should...

A widespread strike by UK prison guards Wednesday ended the same day after the Prison Officers' Association (POA) agreed to negotiate new pay terms with the government this coming Friday. The surprise strike, which began...

Several lawyers' groups and legislators Wednesday filed a challenge against the Human Security Act 2007 with the Supreme Court of the Philippines. The act, signed in March by President Gloria Arroyo, authorizes the...

Russian prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a Russian officer accused of fatally beating a conscript. Cpl. Vadim Kalinin was charged with inflicting "deliberate bodily harm resulting in death" on Russian conscript Pvt. Sergei Sinkonen after Sinkonen's death ...

Hezbollah is organizing lawsuits against Israel seeking reparations for damage caused during the summer 2006 Lebanon conflict . Hezbollah legal affairs director Ibrahim Awada told Syrian media last week that Hezbollah...

UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband Tuesday rejected calls for a general referendum on the proposed EU Reform Treaty , instead insisting that the treaty is "different...in absolute...

Sudan has failed to cooperate with the arrests of two suspects wanted for allegedly committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Tuesday. Moreno-Ocampo told...

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Khek Iev , also known as Duch, has appealed his pre-trial detention, Duch's lawyers said Wednesday. Lawyers filed the appeal last week asking that Duch be released on bail, but have declined...

US Army Lt. Col. Steven Jordan was reprimanded Wednesday following his conviction earlier this week for disobeying an order not to discuss the investigation into allegations of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib...