The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class action lawsuit Thursday against the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) , alleging that five girls imprisoned at the Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional Complex ...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Thursday commended the US Supreme Court for its ruling that federal courts have jurisdiction to review habeas corpus petitions filed by Guantanamo detainees...
US President George W. Bush Thursday expressed disappointment at the Supreme Court's ruling that federal courts have jurisdiction to review habeas corpus petitions filed by Guantanamo Bay detainees. Bush pledged that administration...
The UK shadow Home Secretary resigned his parliamentary seat Thursday in protest at House of Commons passage Wednesday of an anti-terror bill that would allow authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for...
Zimbabwean police arrested opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Secretary General Tendai Biti Thursday on suspicion of treason. Biti left Zimbabwe after the disputed March 29 elections in which MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai...
Sudanese UN ambassador Abdel-Mahmood Mohamed told Reuters Wednesday that International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is a terrorist. He said that the ICC's plan to divert the plane of Minister...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper officially apologized Wednesday for Canada's former Indian residential schools policy , which was designed to aggressively assimilate aboriginal children. The school policy, which was in place from the 1870s to...
The UK House of Commons Wednesday voted 315-306 in favor of an amendment to a proposed anti-terror bill that would allow authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days [JURIST...
Judges for the US Court of Appeals for The Third Circuit revoked the US citizenship of a former Nazi guard on Tuesday because he had obtained it illegally. The US Department of Justice alleged that Anton...
A US State Department official Tuesday defended the transfer of suspects to foreign countries based on diplomatic assurances that they will not face torture there. Speaking before the House Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight ,...
