The Human Rights Watch annual report released Wednesday alleges an increasing amount of human rights abuses in Iraq, including torture of detainees and attacks on civilians, and assigns some of the blame to the US and its...

The European Parliament announced on Wednesday that it would investigate claims that the CIA has been illegally detaining and torturing terrorism suspects in European countries or using European air bases as transit points to send...

In the final run-up to next Monday's Canadian federal election that is expected to bring his Conservative Party to power after 13 years in the political wilderness, leader Stephen Harper has backpedaled after suggesting that...

Memo on rendition and extraordinary rendition, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, December 2005 [concluding that while undertaking or cooperating with extraordinary rendition of terror suspects to countries where they could face a real risk of torture could never be legal...

The European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that Germany may not apply restrictions to workers from outside the European Union sent to Germany by European companies. The German law, passed last...

The non-partisan Congressional Research Service , the public-policy research arm of the Library of Congress , called the Bush administration's limited briefings on the NSA domestic spying program "inconsistent with the law" in a...

Lawyers for Tariq Aziz , the former Iraqi deputy prime minister under the Saddam Hussein regime, have asked Italy and Croatia to grant him asylum if Aziz is released from US detention....

The Electronic Privacy Information Center has announced plans to file a federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Thursday against the US Justice Department seeking the release of documents about the department's role in the...

The Nepalese government on Thursday arrested over 52 senior politicians and activists in an apparent attempt to shut down an anti-government rally planned for Friday in the capital. The government banned demonstrations and imposed a night curfew...

The Iraqi Ministry of Justice said Thursday that the US military would release six Iraqi women prisoners from Abu Ghraib prison , but insisted the release is not in response to threats from a...