Reuters is reporting that the US military will close Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and transfer approximately 4,500 prisoners to other facilities in Iraq, according to a military spokesman. The prison, a torture center under the regime...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has uncovered over 100 violations of wiretapping and intelligence gathering rules in the past two years, including using wiretaps that exceeded the scope authorized by court warrant and obtaining communications with an...
Human rights violations remain a problem in the United States, including illegal wiretapping, police abuse, wrongful convictions, and the world's highest ratio of people behind bars, according to a report released Thursday by China. The Human Rights Record of...
The UN Security Council will take up the issue of Iran's nuclear program after Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency , transmitted his official report on Iran's nuclear program to...
The US State Department on Wednesday named North Korea, Burma and Iran among the world's biggest human rights offenders in its 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices , saying that "countries...
Appellate judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Wednesday reduced the sentence of former Bosnian Serb army commander Momir Nikolic to 20 years, saying the lower chamber erred...
The US House of Representatives has approved renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act , sending the reauthorization bill to President Bush for his signature. The US Senate approved the USA PATRIOT and Terrorism...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insisted Tuesday that US treatment of detainees is consistent with the Geneva Conventions , but questioned the relevance of some Geneva provisions in the context of "this new kind of war,...
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Tuesday that Israel would consider resorting to targeted killings of Hamas leaders if the group resumes attacks in Israel. Hamas , regarded by much of the international community to be...
US government lawyers on Monday asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two rights groups against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. The American...
