China's Shanxi province High People's Court Tuesday announced the completion of 7 trials and verdicts against 29 defendants accused of involvement in the use of slave labor at various brick kilns in the Shanxi and...

Lawyers and rights groups joined in criticism of Australia's continued detention of UK terror suspect Dr. Mohammad Haneef Tuesday, saying that the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship's decision to revoke Haneef's work visa so that...

The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office announced the expulsion of four Russian diplomats and the immediate suspension of visa facilitation negotiations with Russia Monday, blaming "Russia's failure to cooperate to find a solution" in the...

Former Ugandan health minister Jim Muhwezi went to trial Monday on charges of embezzlement and abuse of office. Muhwezi is alleged to have misused $4.3 million in grants donated to the government of Uganda by the...

Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum admitted during a preliminary hearing Monday to killing Iraqis at Haditha in November 2005 but said he was acting pursuant to proper military protocol. Tatum is charged [news...

Judge Haley Fromholz of the Los Angeles Superior Court Monday approved a $660 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and plaintiffs in 508 outstanding clergy sex abuse lawsuits [JURIST...

Washington, DC Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Attorney General Linda Singer announced Monday that the city will appeal a ruling invalidating the District of Columbia's handgun ban to the US Supreme Court. The city has...

Lawyers and human rights advocates called for more rigid procedures governing the investigation of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines at a Monday conference organized by the Supreme Court of the Philippines . Edelina dela Paz, chairwoman...

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan Monday dismissed charges against 13 of 16 defendants in an ongoing criminal tax shelters case against former employees of the accounting firm KPMG , ruling that federal prosecutors violated...

A bipartisan group of 44 former US state attorneys general have asked the US House and Senate Judiciary Committees to investigate whether the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (D) , was politically motivated,...