The lawyer for Moustafa Hassan Nasr , the Egyptian cleric who CIA operatives allegedly kidnapped and moved out of Italy to Egypt in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition , has claimed...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Thursday on the controversial renomination of White House aide Brett Kavanaugh to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Kavanaugh faced probing questions from committee...

The alleged assassin of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has accused Serb police officers and other officials of forcing him to sign a statement that says he is responsible for the 2003 murder ...

The US House of Representatives Tuesday approved a bill limiting protests during military funerals. The Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act is aimed mainly at the renegade Westboro Baptist Church [WARNING: readers may find material at this church...

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark , now serving as a defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein , called the trial of the former Iraqi leader "a direct threat to international law, the...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, the High Court in London has recommended that the UK hacker behind unprecedented attacks on US military computer systems in late 2001 and early 2002 be extradited to the US to face criminal charges [US...

US senators working towards a compromise on key sections of an immigration reform bill they hope to vote on by Memorial Day have tentatively agreed to toughen rules on the hiring of illegal immigrants by forcing...

US District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina has ruled that a lawsuit against US officials brought by four British citizens formerly held at Guantanamo who claim their religious freedoms were infringed during detention may go forward. Urbina found...

Committee Against Torture, presentation by the United States, May 5-8, 2006. Read the remarks by U.S. Department of State Legal Adviser John Bellinger at the May 5 meeting; the written presentation by the United States to the Committee (responses to...

The UN General Assembly Tuesday elected 47 member states to founding seats on the new UN Human Rights Council . The successful candidates included Russia and China, which recently have come under US criticism [JURIST...