UN Special Rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak called Saturday for the Obama administration to launch an inquiry into the role of the US in human rights violations allegedly committed in Iraq . Nowak's comments follow...
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UN investigator calls for inquiry into Iraq rights abuses
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Haiti report finds officers killed 12 unarmed detainees during prison uprising: NYT
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Russia prosecutors seek 14-year sentence in second Khodorkovsky case
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UN rights office says Guinea security forces committed abuses in election demonstrations
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Canada Supreme Court broadens journalists’ rights to protect sources
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Dutch court dismisses judges for bias in politician’s trial for anti-Islam statements
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Indonesia admits responsibility for detainee torture video
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France court to try 2 officers over teen deaths that sparked 2005 riots
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Pentagon limits ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ discharge authority
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Sri Lanka government defends war crimes commission
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Haitian prison officers are alleged to have killed 12 detainees "deliberately and without justification," using "inappropriate, abusive and disproportionate force" during a January 19 prison uprising, according to an independent commission, the New York Times reported ...
Russian prosecutors asked Friday for a 14-year prison sentence in the second case against former oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky , though his sentence could be reduced based on time served for a prior conviction. Khodorkovsky...
The UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern on Friday that security forces in Guinea "committed serious human rights violations" in subduing demonstrations that took place this week ahead of the...
The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday expanded journalists' rights to protect sources while testifying.The decision, delivered by Justice Louis LeBel, expanded a May Supreme Court ruling that denied journalists the overarching ability to guarantee...
A Dutch court panel on Friday dismissed the presiding judges in the trial of right-wing politician Geert Wilders in response to claims of judicial bias. Earlier this month, the court rejected Widlers' claims of...
Indonesian officials on Friday admitted to their soldiers' involvement in the torture of Papuan detainees, which garnered international outrage after a video of the torture surfaced this week. Security Affairs...
Two French police officers who chased three teens into a power substation, resulting in two of their deaths from electrocution, will stand trial on criminal charges, lawyers said Friday. The officers are charged with "non-assistance to a person in...
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates issued a memorandum on Thursday limiting the authority to discharge openly gay service members to five senior Department of Defense (DOD) officials. The memo is seen as a response to...
The Sri Lankan government on Thursday continued to defend the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), a government mandated probe into alleged rights violations committed during the end of the nation's civil war , against widespread criticism....
