Eight former police and military officers have been indicted by a Uruguayan court on counts of kidnapping and conspiracy committed during Uruguay's military dictatorship of 1973-85 . The crimes relate to the 1976 disappearances of five members of an Uruguayan leftist group who fled to Argentina and were detained there by police. Investigators suspect that [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) sentenced a former Rwandan army officer to 25 years in prison on Tuesday on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity connected to the 1994 genocide that left at least 937,000 Tutsis and Hutus dead. Lt. Col. Tharcisse Muvunyi, the former Commander of the Rwandan military school, was [...]

An Israeli military court Tuesday ordered the release of 21 Palestinian lawmakers, including three cabinet ministers, who were detained following the Hamas capture of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit in Gaza in June. Prosecutors are appealing the decision to release the detainees on bail, however, and the lawmakers will remain in jail for another 48 hours [...]

International human rights groups have denounced China's release of new media regulations governing the domestic release of news and information by foreign news agencies. The regulations, which give China's official Xinhua News Agency ultimate rights of approval over the distribution and release of foreign news content, are being seen as a threat to the free [...]

US District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Canadian oil and gas producer Talisman Energy aided genocide in order to access oil in Sudan. The judge ruled that "the plaintiffs have failed to locate admissible evidence that Talisman has violated international law." The First [...]

A Kurdish witness testifying Tuesday in the resumed genocide trial of Saddam Hussein described how Iraqi troops bombed his village outside the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya in 1988 and of how he fled to Iran with relatives, but lost his mother and two sisters, whose identity cards were found in 2004 in a mass grave, [...]

British prosecutors have charged Yassin Mutegombwa with receiving training for terrorism, making him the first person in the UK charged with the new offense under the recently enacted Terrorism Act 2006 . Mutegombwa was one of 14 suspects arrested during anti-terror raids in Britain conducted in early September. A British court Tuesday ordered four of [...]

US Senators John Warner (R-VA), John McCain (R-AZ), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Monday circulated a revised draft of a bill that would establish military commissions for terror detainees. Although the draft is closer to the Bush administration's own proposed legislation , the senators' revision retains several points at odds with the White House proposal. [...]

An Indian court Tuesday convicted four people – all members of the same family – of conspiracy and aiding a terrorist act in the 1993 Mumbai bombings , a series of attacks which killed 257 people and injured over 700 others in India's financial center. Indian prosecutors charged 123 defendants in connection with the attacks [...]

US District Judge Roslyn Silver on Monday refused to prevent enforcement of an Arizona law requiring voters to show a government-issued photo ID or two non-photo forms of identification before casting a ballot. The measure, which also requires voters to show proof of citizenship, was approved in 2004 in an effort to stop voter fraud [...]