Secret detentions and illegal transfer of detainees involving Council of Europe member states: second report, Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), June 8, 2007 [reporting that the Central Intelligence Agency...

Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen Thursday signed legislation which starting on July 1 will allow those who were convicted for protesting laws designed to enforce racial segregation to receive a full pardon and to have their criminal records...

Chilean Supreme Court judge Urbano Marin Vallejo ordered the house arrest of Alberto Fujimori Friday, responding to concerns that the former Peruvian President held in Chilean custody since 2005 will try to flee the...

Indicted US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) pleaded not guilty Friday to charges under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act , including bribery, racketeering, money laundering, and obstruction of justice. Jefferson allegedly...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan Friday delayed its ruling on whether it has jurisdiction over the legal disputes involving the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry , putting that off...

The New Hampshire State Senate voted 15-9 Thursday to repeal a 2003 law requiring parental notification for minors seeking an abortion . New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has indicated...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established and operated secret detention centers in Romania and Poland between 2002 and 2005, according to a report [PDF text; Appendix 1, JPG; Appendix 2, JPG; Appendix 3, PDF; press release;...

US Marines Staff Sgt. Justin Laughner testified Thursday at the Article 32 hearing for Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani , the commander in charge of the Marine battalion implicated in the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians...

The trial of 26 US Central Intelligence Agency agents and two former Italian intelligence officials in the 2003 abduction and rendition of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr ...

The number of death sentences handed down by Chinese courts in the first five months of 2007 has decreased following the implementation of reforms which require all death sentences to receive the approval of the Supreme People's...