Ten human rights groups said Thursday they would boycott a UK government inquiry into allegations that its secret services were complicit in torture of detainees in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The groups, including Human Rights Watch (HRW)...
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Rights groups boycotting UK detainee torture inquiry
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Federal appeals court dismisses health care suit for lack of standing
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Germany authorities says Facebook facial recognition violates European data protection law
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South Korea regulator fines Apple for collecting iPhone user location information
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UN rights investigator urges Iran to comply with human rights mandate
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Guatemala court sentences ex-soldiers to over 6,000 years in prison
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Japan lawmakers approve Fukushima victim compensation plan
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Ninth Circuit upholds universitiy policy against student group religious discrimination
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France to extradite Noriega to Panama
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Australia judge freezes profits from ex-Guantanamo detainee book
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The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a lower court's dismissal of a challenge to the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) ...
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information said Tuesday that Facebook is in violation of European data protection laws through its feature that automatically...
South Korean regulators on Wednesday fined Apple USD $2,855 for collecting location information from its iPhone and iPad users. It is the first time Apple has been punished for collecting location information from users of...
UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Dr. Ahmed Shaheed on Wednesday urged Iran to comply with his mandate seeking cooperation from Iranian officials. The mandate allows Iran to discuss and implement measures to meet its international human rights...
A Guatemalan court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced four former soldiers to 6,060 years in prison each on war crimes charges related to the country's 1982 Dos Erres massacre. Carlos Antonio Carias, Manuel Pop, Reyes Collin and Daniel Martinez...
The National Diet of Japan , the nation's bicameral legislature, voted on Wednesday to compensate those adversely affected by the recent Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown. The law will create a fund...
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that San Diego State University (SDSU) can deny funding and status as a student organization to two Christian groups that require members be of the same religion. A panel for the...
A lawyer for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega announced on Tuesday that French authorities have agreed to extradite him to Panama. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon reportedly agreed to the...
An Australian judge on Wednesday froze the profits from a memoir written by former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . Hicks spent more than five years without trial in US custody after being captured...
