Russia's most senior judge has predicted that the Kremlin's growing power will eventually result in a dictatorship if it remains unchecked by the country's judiciary. Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Valery...

Jury selection is slated to begin Tuesday in Rio Grande City, Texas, in the latest wrongful death case involving the painkiller Vioxx . The family of Leonel Garza is suing Merck Pharmaceutical...

In a statement issued Monday, Uzbek opposition group Sunshine Uzbekistan called on authorities to hold open proceedings when opposition leader, Sanjar Umarov goes on trial. Umarov, a business man with ties to...

Several family members and former employees of former Chilean president General Augusto Pinochet were indicted Monday on tax evasion charges. Judge Carlos Cerda issued arrest warrants for Pinochet's wife, four of his children, daughter-in-law,...

Six non-US citizens who were arrested and detained on visa violations as "persons of interest" in terror investigations after the Sept. 11 attacks return to the United States this week to give depositions in a lawsuit filed against detention...

Turkish state prosecutors have set January 18, 2010 as the date when Mehmet Ali Agca , the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, will be released from jail. Agca was freed ...

Newly-elected Bolivian president Evo Morales addressed the nation during his inauguration speech Sunday and promised to promote justice for indigenous Bolivian Indians, saying that they had been discriminated against and "never recognized as human...

The chief investigative judge for the Iraqi High Criminal Court (formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal ) announced Monday that judge Ra'uf Rashid will replace former chief judge Rizgar Muhammad Amin in the Saddam Hussein trial ....

Sudanese security forces released nearly 50 human rights delegates attending the African Union summit in Khartoum Monday. Members of the Sudanese Organization Against Torture , Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International and the International Bar...

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Monday, including a decision in Wisconsin Right to Life v. Federal Election Commission , where the Court remanded the case to the federal District...