The Iraqi Human Rights Ministry said late Sunday that 13 prisoners in an overcrowded facility run by the Iraqi Interior Ministry were abuse victims who required medical treatment. The detainees have been transferred to a hospital and are under...

Slobodan Milosevic Monday asked judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to let him visit a Moscow clinic for medical examinations during the court's winter recess. Milosevic suffers from...

UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Monday in a BBC radio interview that the UK has found no evidence that the US transported terror detainees via UK airports, despite a UK newspaper report...

In a 6-0 vote, the California Supreme Court late Sunday refused to halt the execution of co-founder Crips gang co-founder and convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams . Williams was convicted of killing four people during two...

Leading Monday's international brief, Human Rights Watch has called on the UN Security Council to sanction Sudanese President Omar El Bashir and other senior Sudanese government officials for complicity in crimes against humanity....

A deadlocked federal jury in a Texas Vioxx case will resume its deliberations Monday after informing US District Judge Eldon Fallon on Saturday that it could not reach a unanimous verdict about whether Merck & Co.’s [corporate...

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday in an interview on Fox News Sunday that would support changing Senate procedures to ban judicial filibusters if Democrats attempt to use the device to block the US Supreme Coourt nomination of...

The Iraqi government announced Sunday that it will enforce strict security measures for Thursday's parliamentary elections, including closing all borders, extending curfews and banning travel across provincial boundaries from Tuesday through Saturday. Meanwhile, US-led coalition forces and the Iraqi...

The interim government of Haiti has removed five of its ten Supreme Court judges in what it called an “administrative measure, to improve the efficiency of the court.” Many speculate that the forced retirement of the...

Jose Padilla v. Commander C.T. Hanft, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, December 9, 2005 [US DOJ brief arguing that as Jose Padilla has been indicted on 11 criminal counts by civil authorities the case of his...