Partners in crime: Europe's role in US renditions, Amnesty International, June 14, 2006 [report accusing European states of being "partners in crime" with the United States in the alleged circuit of CIA rendition flights transporting terror suspects to third countries...

Council of Europe (COE) Secretary General Terry Davis concluded in a new report published Wednesday that many European governments do not have adequate administrative, judicial, or parliamentary control mechanisms to ensure that their airspace and aircraft are...

Three independent UN experts in the areas of judicial independence and freedom of expression expressed "grave concern" for "recent attacks against the judiciary of Egypt," and for detaining protesters who rallied in support of several reform-oriented...

The Serbian Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld 40-year prison sentences for four former members of a special police unit that took orders from then-Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to kill ex-Serb President Ivan Stambolic in...

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force the US Department of Defense to reveal information collected for a domestic terrorist threats database that was allegedly used to spy on peaceful...

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) has arrested over 2,000 illegal immigrants since May 26 in an effort to crackdown on deported gang members, pedophiles and violent felons who snuck back into the...

France's Court of Cassation , the highest court in the country, on Wednesday upheld the conviction of American financier George Soros on insider trading charges. Soros said he plans to appeal the ruling to the European...

UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and Home Secretary John Reid have agreed to meet to consult on procedures to govern the appeal of sentences for sex offenses after Reid objected to a judge's sentence as...

Lawyers for the three Guantanamo Bay detainees who committed suicide have questioned why it took the US military Wednesday three days to notify them of their clients' deaths, saying the delay caused unnecessary distress...

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi is calling for a renewed effort to pass the European constitution after next year's French elections. Prodi spoke in Vienna on Tuesday during...