The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday rejected allegations made by a US Army officer previously involved in Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) proceedings at Guantanamo Bay that the CSRTs were pressured to declare detainees...

Investigators searched the offices of former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Friday as part of a probe into an alleged smear campaign conducted against Villepin political rival and now French...

The Duma , the lower house of the Russian parliament, Friday approved legislative amendments to change the prevailing definition of extremist crime in Russian law to include activities taken for "political or ideological hatred." Opponents of...

Serbia will arrest wanted war crimes fugitive Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic and transfer him to the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague within the year, President Boris Tadic ...

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash) announced Friday he will ask the US Supreme Court to rule on whether he had a First Amendment right to turn over an illegally taped telephone call conversation to the media...

The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) has increased to approximately $100,000 a month the funds available for former Liberian president Charles Taylor to defend himself in his ongoing...

US military prosecutors have filed an appeal against a military judge's decision to dismiss charges against Guantanamo detainee Omar Ahmed Khadr , according to the Department of Defense (DOD) Friday. In late June, Judge Peter...

A Bangladeshi court jailed UN human rights expert Sigma Huda Thursday, pending a trial over allegations connecting her to a government corruption case . Prosecutors allege Huda assisted her husband, former Bangladeshi communications minister...

Alien Detention Standards: Telephone Access Problems Were Pervasive at Detention Facilities; Other Deficiencies Did Not Show a Pattern of Noncompliance, Government Accountability Office, July 6, 2007 [finding that the total number of aliens detained annually for immigration violations jumped from...

Russia expressed displeasure with the UK Friday over British refusal to prosecute exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky for his calls to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin . Berezovsky, who has been living in the...