An Amnesty International spokesman said Thursday in Berlin that torture was still practiced and legally recognized in Turkey despite the latest reform efforts of the Turkish government. Wolfgang Grenz made the statement at the presentation of...
Two separate reports issued in Britain Thursday strongly criticized the anti-terror strategy of Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, documenting domestic deprivations of human rights, condemning UK policy on torture, and urging the government to press the US to shut...
Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in US Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, Human Rights First, February 22, 2006 [reporting that at least 98 prisoners have died in US custody as a result of detainment or interrogation, with 34 being reported as...
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has said that the state of California has decided to postpone indefinitely the execution of condemned killer Michael Morales , initially delayed late Monday after two anesthesiologists refused to take part...
Statement for the Record: Office of General Counsel Involvement in Interrogation Issues, US Navy General Counsel Alberto J. Mora, July 7, 2004 ....
Situation of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Report of the Chairperson of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, UN Commission on Human Rights, February 16, 2005. Excerpt:The Chairperson of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the...
Report on the Effective Respect for Human Rights in France, Alvaro Gil-Robles, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe, February 15, 2006 [report strongly criticizing the French justice system, specifically highlighting overworked and underfunded courts and unsanitary conditions in overcrowded...
US senators late Tuesday failed to overcome an objection effectively killing a bill designed to avoid costly asbestos litigation by creating a special fund to compensate asbestos victims . The objection, raised by Senator John Ensign (R-NV)...
Two members of Haiti's nine-member Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) supervising the country's presidential election claimed late Sunday that the vote was being manipulated after discrepancies appeared on the election website. Figures reported on the site showed leading...
The government of mainly-Muslim Malaysia has imposed a blanket ban on the controversial caricatures of Muhammad , making it an offense to publish, import, produce, manufacture, circulate, distribute or even possess the cartoons originally printed in a...
