At least 21 detainees have been killed while being held in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, many during or after interrogations, according to an ACLU analysis of Defense Department data released Monday. According to autopsy...

Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks , known as the "mother of the civil rights movement," died Monday evening at her home in Detroit. She was 92. Parks was best known for her arrest after refusing to give up...

Wire services are reporting that final results of the October 15 Iraqi referendum announced in Baghdad Tuesday show that the draft Iraqi constitution has been approved.7:49 AM ET - According to officials, two provinces voted "no",...

FBI documents on Patriot Act surveillance of US citizens, Electronic Privacy Information Center, October 24, 2005 [FOIA documents suggesting the FBI has conducted secret surveillance of US citizens and legal residents for up to 18 months without notifying the Justice...

Human rights implications of the Anti-terrorism Bill 2005 [report to Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister Jon Stanhope by experts in human rights and international law from the University of New South Wales and Australian National University, concluding that the bill...

Prisoners in 2004, United States Department of Justice, October 24, 2005 [annual report on inmates in US prisons, noting that the number of women incarcerated in state and federal prisons in 2004 was up by four percent compared with the...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday announced the first US extradition of an indicted criminal from Afghanistan. Baz Mohammad, designated a "foreign drug kingpin" under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Act of 2005 on June...

The UN Security Council announced Monday that it would implement UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's recommendations and organize international discussions on whether Kosovo should be independent or remain a province of Serbia. Annan...

A senior Iraqi official told Reuters Monday that the trial of Saddam Hussein is unlikely to make significant headway before the December 15 parliamentary elections. "The hearing on November 28 - if it happens at all -...

European Commission officials are preparing to warn Bulgaria and Romania that the 2007 scheduled entry of both countries into the European Union may be delayed until 2008 if both nations do not...