The Santiago Court of Appeals voted 16-2 Thursday to strip the immunity of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet , in a case involving the kidnapping and murder of a chemist who worked...

The US State Department has rejected Britain's latest call for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, saying the prison would remain open as long as necessary and was needed to house "some very dangerous...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) labeled anti-war activities as "potential terrorist activity" and monitored students, Quakers and other anti-war groups while collecting information for a domestic terror threats database, according to documents ...

2006 Report on Human Rights, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, October 12, 2006 [describing the "continuing detention without a fair trial" of detainees at Guantanamo Bay Cuba by US forces as "unacceptable in terms of human rights" and "ineffective in...

Reconnaissance du genocide armenien de 1915, French National Assembly, October 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the...

Three Canadian citizens supported by Amnesty International Canada demanded an official inquiry into their cases Thursday along the lines of that undertaken for Maher Arar to determine what role Canadian security forces played in...

Sixteen Afghan men were reunited with their families Thursday after being released by the US military from four years of detention in Guantanamo Bay . The men denied links to Islamic terror groups and...

Sixteen states have in recent years made it easier for convicted felons to vote, according to new report by The Sentencing Project . Lifetime voting bans in Iowa , Nebraska, and New Mexico have...

Moroccan-born Mounir al-Motassadeq , who was convicted by a German court last year for his involvement with the Sept. 11 attacks , could face a third trial, a judge in Germany's...

As many as 80 Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial before military commissions, a US State Department legal adviser said Thursday. John Bellinger also said President Bush will sign Congress' recently-passed military...