Russia military court sentences soldiers to prison in Chechnya civilian killings retrial
A Russian military court in the North Caucasus region sentenced Russian Interior Force officers Yevgeny Khudyakov and Sergei Arakcheyev to 17 and 15 years in prison respectively Thursday for killing three construction workers [International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights...
Leaders from the 27 countries that make up the European Union on Thursday signed the Treaty of Lisbon , a reform treaty designed to speed up the decision-making process within EU institutions and allow...
Iran high court orders new probe into Canadian journalist death
The Iranian Supreme Court has ordered a new probe in the case of murdered Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi on an appeal of a lower court order that the case be reopened, a...
Executions worldwide up, countries with death penalty down: report
The number of executions worldwide increased slightly in 2006 while the number of countries that employ capital punishment decreased, according to a report released Thursday by the Rome-based anti-death penalty group Hands Off Cain ....
Federal appeals court orders re-sentencing of former Wal-Mart exec
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Tuesday ordered former Wal-Mart vice chairman Tom Coughlin to face a new sentencing hearing, holding that his sentence was too lenient and improperly...
The New York Times is reporting that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned from his post after months of controversy over the Justice Department's handling of the firings of eight US Attorneys [JURIST...
Leahy considering contempt charges for Bush officials over wiretap subpoenas
US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Monday threatened to hold top members of the Bush administration in contempt if they continue to refuse to turn over subpoenaed information about the warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news...
FBI memo contradicts Gonzales Patriot Act testimony: Washington Post
A 2004 FBI memorandum appears to contradict congressional testimony by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales concerning whether he was aware of FBI "abuses" of the USA Patriot Act when he testified...
Gonzales aware of FBI privacy violations before Patriot Act testimony: WP report
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales received reports that the FBI had improperly used national security letters (NSL) prior to testifying before Congress in 2005 that "there has not been...
About 60 nations pledged Tuesday to refrain from the illegal and unacceptable use of child soldiers in armed conflicts during the second day of Free Children from War , a global conference in Paris. Hosted by...
