The US House of Representatives Friday approved four separate articles of impeachment against Judge Samuel Kent of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Kent is the...
The Kenyan government must address impunity for human rights violations committed by police and security forces during the December 2007 post-election violence , Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan urged Friday upon...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that three Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to Saudi Arabia, their country of origin, where they will undergo judicial review and rehabilitation. Khalid...
The Peruvian Congress voted Wednesday to suspend controversial land laws for 90 days, in an effort to quell indigenous protests that led to a violent clash [NACLA backgrounder; El Pais report,...
Several senior officials working in the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Bush administration sought to limit uses of so-called enhanced interrogation tactics but broadly agreed on the legality of the tactics, according...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld on Friday the 2007 conviction of former Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale for the...
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama on Sunday dismissed calls from Amnesty International (AI) to publish the official death toll during the finals weeks of the armed conflict that...
Officials from the G8 countries on Saturday agreed to work toward establishing a system for trying pirates captured in African waters . The recent increase in pirate activity has created problems for where to try...
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith confirmed on Friday that Australia is considering the Obama administration's request that Australia accept six of the Uighur Guantanamo detainees who have already been cleared for release. Smith...
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday rejected calls for his government to provide full humanitarian access to Tamil displacement camps in the country, saying the camps still needed to be screened for rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE)...
