The Istanbul Bar Association has urged the Turkish government to withdraw proposed anti-terror legislation, warning that the bill could harm freedom, while adding nothing to the previously adopted Turkish Penal Code . The Bar...
China has not overlooked human rights abuses in its quest to find energy sources for its growing economy, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Spokesman Qin Gang said China emphasized peace, cooperation and...
Leading Belarusian opposition figure Alexander Milinkevich was arrested Wednesday along with other demonstrators at a rally in Minsk, according to activists. About 7,000 opposition members gathered for what is traditionally the largest rally of the...
A US Senate panel conducting an investigation into the federal response to Hurricane Katrina has concluded that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be abolished and replaced with a new federal agency ...
At least 600 US troops have been linked to cases of abuse , torture or killing of as many as 460 detainees at various detention facilities around the world, three human rights groups reported Wednesday. According to a...
Pro-democracy protests continued in Nepal on Tuesday, with government employees being arrested for the first time and international pressure from India and several human rights groups being put on King Gyanendra to...
A federal judge on Monday ruled that North Carolina officials could use a brain-wave monitor rather than have a doctor present to ensure a prisoner was not conscious during an execution by lethal injection. Lawyers for...
The Alabama Legislature on Monday approved a bill that would pardon Rosa Parks , the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists convicted of violating Jim Crow laws in...
The Indiana Democratic Party on Monday said it would appeal a federal judge's ruling that a state law requiring voters to show photo identification is valid. Party Chairman Daniel Parker said the ruling "glossed over"...
A New York judge on Monday ordered Transport Union Workers Local 100 to pay $2.5 million in fines for illegally going on strike in December, bringing New York City's public transport system to a halt. Judge Theodore...
