US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said Tuesday that more than 100 detainees had been abused in two Iraqi detention facilities, a figure considerably greater than the 21 or 26 people previously reported as...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, the International Commission of Jurists has issued a report urging the Nepal government to revoke the recently approved media ordinance as contrary to the Nepalese Constitution ...

The Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milsoevic, Decision in Relation to Severance, Extension of Time, and Rest, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, December 12, 2005 (released December 13, 2005) [deciding not to sever proceedings in the Slobodan Milosevic trial so...

Hicks v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court, Mr. Justice Collins, December 13, 2005 [ruling that David Hicks, the Australian detained at Guantanamo Bay for over...

Polish prosecutors said Tuesday that they are preparing charges against General Wojciech Jaruzelski , the last Communist leader of Poland, in connection with his December 13, 1981 declaration of martial law in the country. Prosecutors...

Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday said that countries have a duty to respect international humanitarian law "even in the midst of war." In the Pope's peace message , released in advance of the Catholic church's...

Swiss senator Dick Marty submitted a report to the Council of Europe (CoE) Tuesday, concluding that allegations that the CIA operated secret prisons in Europe and abducted and illegally transported terror suspects across Europe are...

Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said Tuesday that they will not sever proceedings in the Slobodan Milosevic trial . The court had been considering whether...

US District Judge James Robertson said Monday that he will consider allowing two Chinese Uighur Guantanamo Bay detainees to appear in federal court to challenge their ongoing confinement. The two men have been determined...

An Italian court has ordered the freezing of an Iranian government account at a Rome bank at the instance of US plaintiffs claiming compensation for terrorist acts supposedly supported by Iran. Steven Flatow, a New Jersey lawyer whose daughter...