Police in Zimbabwe arrested opposition leader Arthur Mutambara and 70 supporters on Friday for allegedly campaigning for a Saturday byelection in violation of Zimbabwe’s Public Order and Security Act , which makes it illegal...

Conclusions and recommendations of the Committee against Torture: United States of America, UN Committee Against Torture, May 18, 2006 [saying that to comply with the terms of the Convention Against Torture the US should shut down its prison for terror...

The French National Assembly has postponed until at least October debate on a controversial bill sponsored by the opposition Socialist Party that would make it a crime...

Somali MPs on Friday asked Prime Minister Ali Gedi to expel several warlords from the Somali cabinet after 150 people were killed in Mogadishu last week during fighting between Islamic factions and the warlord militias. The MPs...

US v. Milberg Weiss et al., US District Court for the Central District of California, May 18, 2006 [indictment of leading US class-action law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman and partners David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman for...

The US Senate on Thursday passed the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 , which would increase the maximum FCC indecency fines per station by a multiple of ten, from $32,500 to $325,000 per violation....

Khaled el-Masri v. George Tenet, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge T.S. Ellis III, May 18, 2006 [dismissing a lawsuit brought by the ACLU against CIA Director George Tenet and other agency officials and employees...

A Russian court-martial sitting at a military base outside Khabarovsk in the far east of the country has sentenced Sergeant Dmitry Nagaitsev to five years in prison after he was convicted of abusing his rank and degradation for beating...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Friday wrapped up her first visit to Cambodia by saying that the country must develop an independent judiciary and allow NGOs to operate effectively...

The US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California Thursday released a grand jury indictment of leading US class-action law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman and partners...