Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) reached an agreement in principle Monday to establish a human rights body as part of the proposed ASEAN Charter, according to an announcement by Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo . Yeo, who is heading the 40th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting, told reporters that the ten member states [...]
The UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights rejected the British government's proposal for an extension of pre-charge detention for terror suspects, saying in a report published Monday that it is "not convinced of the need" of extending the current 28-day limit. The Committee criticized the former Blair government's "apparent desire to be seen to [...]
US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Sunday that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may be the subject of a perjury investigation if he does not clear up concerns regarding the truthfulness of his testimony about warrantless wiretapping. Speaking on CBS News' Face the Nation program, Leahy gave Gonzales one week to resolve [...]
US President George W. Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address that he wants to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to meet threats from terrorists who can now use cell phones and the Internet to communicate. Bush urged Congress to pass new legislation, saying: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — also known [...]
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Thailand may continue to hold eight leaders of last Saturday's anti-coup protest for up to 48 days, a Thai police official told Reuters Saturday. Colonel Supisarn Bhakdinarinath said that police are authorized to hold suspects without charge for 12 days, and are allowed to request up to three extensions from a court. The eight protest [...]
A 2004 FBI memorandum appears to contradict congressional testimony by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales concerning whether he was aware of FBI "abuses" of the USA Patriot Act when he testified for the law's reauthorization in 2005, the Washington Post reported Saturday. Gonzales, who testified in 2005 "there has not been one verified case of [...]
told reporters Saturday that the Australian government has given Dr. Mohammad Haneef permission to leave Australia, reversing a previous decision to place the former terror suspect under home detention . Haneef's transfer to home detention followed the Australian chief prosecutor's decision Friday to drop the terror charge Haneef faced in connection with June's attempted UK [...]
An Indian court Friday sentenced to death Yakub Memon, the brother of a man suspected of plotting the 1993 Mumbai bombings remains at large. Another brother, Essa Memon, received a life sentence Friday, as did two other Memon relatives connected with the plot. Thus far the court has sentenced 12 people to death and 20 [...]
The US Congress sent an anti-terror bill to President George Bush for signature Friday. The bill, based on recommendations by the 9/11 commission , would transfer funds to states and cities found to be at high risk for terrorist attacks. It also includes a provision to screen all air and sea cargo coming into the [...]
