Human Rights Watch accused the CIA Tuesday of transferring terror suspects to Jordan following September 11, saying that the US sent them there for interrogations as part of the CIA's rendition program [JURIST news...
The US Department of Justice advised the US Department of Defense in 2003 that military interrogators could employ a wide range of interrogation methods when questioning foreign detainees outside the United States without fear of criminal liability...
China is denying human rights, including basic religious freedom, to Tibetans, according to an annual report released Tuesday by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office . The report found:Violations of human rights continue in...
A Nebraska bill that would have banned the death penalty, replacing it with a sentence of life in prison without parole, failed in the Nebraska Legislature on Tuesday, receiving only 20 of the 25...
A quarter of criminal defendants in Cambodian courts are tortured or coerced into giving confessions, a statistic that has not changed since last year, according to an annual report released Thursday by Center for Social Development (CSD)...
Chinese officials have ordered the closure of 25 video-sharing websites in a recent crackdown on Internet content considered pornographic, violent, or a threat to national security, the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and Television ...
China has arrested 24 suspects in Tibet for their role in pro-Tibet protests that erupted throughout the region last week, the Tibet Daily reported Thursday. The suspects are charged with endangering national security, among...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Thursday rejected a request by former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea to be released from provisional detention . Nuon Chea, known...
A Chilean court convicted 24 former Chilean police officers of human rights violations on Wednesday for their role in the 1973 murders of 30 leftist prisoners. A woman who survived the incident, which took place during the regime of...
Seventeen Chinese Uighur Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay for six years have still not been told why they are being held at the military facility, according to a letter written by one of the detainees and released...
