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The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Tuesday held its first public hearing, considering the appeal of Kaing Guek Eav , better known as "Duch," against his eight-year pre-trial detention....

Lawyers for Canadian citizen Maher Arar argued before a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that Arar should be allowed to revive his lawsuit against senior officials in...

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove announced Monday that he will resign his position effective at the end of August . Rove said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that...

Canadian intelligence officials suspected that the United States would deport detained Canadian citizen Maher Arar to a country where he could have been subject to torture, according to previously censored information released Thursday by Canada's...

Lawyers representing Jose Padilla indicated Tuesday that they are not expecting to present a defense case, telling presiding US District Judge Marcia Cooke that the defense will not call any witnesses. Jurors have been...

Canada's Federal Court Wednesday ordered the government to publicly release previously censored portions of a report on Maher Arar , a Canadian citizen who was detained in the US in 2002 and...

US District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled Tuesday that prosecutors had produced enough evidence in the trial of Jose Padilla and his co-defendants that the case should go to a jury, rejecting a motion for acquittal filed...

A French appeals court Saturday acquitted one of 12 individuals who appealed their convictions in a 2005 child prostitution case, one of the biggest criminal trials in the country's history . Sixty-two men and women were...

Claims of clergy sex abuse levied against the US Roman Catholic Church decreased for the second year in a row and recent cases involving claimants under age 18 have dropped significantly, according to an annual report...

The US Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland has filed a new bankruptcy plan with the US Bankruptcy Court anticipating a payment of $75 million to settle outstanding sex abuse claims...