North Korea accused South Korea of Internet censorship Friday, saying that preventing the South Korean public from accessing pro-North Korea websites violates their citizens' basic human rights and freedom to access information. Since...
In the latest string of judgments against Russia, the European Court of Human Rights Thursday held the country responsible for the deaths and disappearance of three people in Chechnya . In the first case [judgment; press...
A Russian court has shut down the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (ORCD) , a Chechen human rights group that has been exposing abuses against civilians in Chechnya and providing assistance to victims of violence. The decision follows the February...
The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights has claimed in a new report that Russia is maintaining secret prisons in Chechnya and is using them for kidnapping and torturing...
President Bush has imposed a US travel ban on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and his associates. In a proclamation released Monday, Bush cited election fraud, corruption and human rights violations as reasons for...
Leading UK human rights lawyers and activists are protesting the Blair governments readiness to limit the application of the Human Rights Act in the wake of a High Court decision last week that permitted...
Stephen Hadley , President Bushs national security advisor, defended the recently-exposed government program to collect data on private phone calls Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation, saying that it was legal and narrowly tailored....
Lawyers acting for former Kenyan transport minister Chris Murungaru will appear in the High Court in London on Tuesday to challenge a travel ban imposed last summer to prevent him...
New UK Home Secretary John Reid admitted on Monday that the number of serious offenders among convicted foreign criminals released from custody in the UK by administrative error before deportation reviews may be double...
Lawyers for five Kuwaitis formerly detained at Guantanamo told a Kuwait criminal court Sunday that the Kuwaiti courts lack any foundation for convicting their clients of having links with al Qaeda ....
