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Lawyers for former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani have filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him, according to heavily redacted court documents made public Tuesday. Ghailani's lawyers...

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday reduced the sentence of former Bosnian Serb general Dragomir Milosevic from 33 years to 29 years...

A French court on Tuesday ordered the country's government to extend adoption rights to a gay woman. The court held that French adoption law , which currently allows single people to adopt children but bars...

A judge in South Africa's Pietermaritzburg High Court ruled Friday that an earlier decision to prosecute politician Jacob Zuma on corruption charges was procedurally invalid because Zuma was not given the chance...

Former Cambodian Foreign Minister Ieng Sary , accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the Khmer Rouge communist regime of the 1970s, has returned to ECCC custody after his...

The number of executions in the US in 2007 reached the lowest level in 13 years, according to the 2007 year-end report issued by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) on Tuesday. DPIC...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Wednesday sentenced former Bosnian Serb general Dragomir Milosevic to 33 years in prison after convicting him of war crimes and crimes...

Hawaii legislators have shelved a proposal to create civil unions for same-sex couples, indicating that the state legislature did not have enough votes to pass the law. The state House Judiciary Committee...

The trial of Dragomir Milosevic began Thursday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . Milosevic, a former Bosnian Serb general not related to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, has been...

Five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were convicted and sentenced to death Tuesday for knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus. This is the second time a Libyan court has convicted the medics;...