The Disability Law Center of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) on Thursday, saying the state's treatment of mentally ill prisoners violates the Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act . According to the suit filed in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts , the state isolates [...]
The CIA operated a secret interrogation and short-term detention facility for suspected terrorists from 2002 to 2004 in a Polish intelligence training school with the explicit approval of British and US authorities, according to a Raw Story investigative report. British and Polish intelligence officials familiar with the story placed the facility in a Soviet-era military [...]
Police surrounded the Congress of Ecuador on Thursday following a decision by the country's highest electoral court to dismiss 57 of its 100 lawmakers. In a questionable exercise of authority, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal ruled that the congressmen had illegally interfered with a referendum pushed by President Rafael Correa on whether to draft a new [...]
A Nigerian court held Wednesday that Vice President Atiku Abubakar can run in next month's presidential election, throwing out a decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ban Abubakar after he was indicted for corruption. Only the court has the authority to ban a candidate from contesting elections under the country's 2006 Electoral [...]
The Bangladeshi interim government arrested six politicians, including the son of former prime minister Khaleda Zia , for alleged corruption Thursday, according to local media. Tarique Rahman was detained at his mother's house in Dhaka. Rahman, a senior member in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party , was widely expected to succeed his mother, who stepped down [...]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his government will fully cooperate with an investigation by ruling Liberal Democratic party lawmakers into allegations that the Japanese military forced women into prostitution in army-operated brothels during World War II. Despite widespread evidence to the contrary, Japanese politicians have repeatedly denied the use of so-called "comfort women" to [...]
Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr told his mother Wednesday in the first phone call with his family since his capture in 2002 that he plans to do whatever he can to avoid appearing in front of his military trial in Guantanamo Bay because he believes the military commission is fundamentally unfair. The Toronto Star reported [...]
The US Senate voted 51-48 Wednesday to adopt an amendment to a new anti-terror bill , weakening union rights that would be granted to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screeners under the bill. President Bush said last month that he would veto the anti-terror bill if provisions allowing TSA screeners to unionize were included in [...]
The European Court of Human Rights held a hearing Thursday to determine the admissibility and merits of a case filed in 2003 by 159 children of Norwegian mothers and German fathers born during World War II. Many of these "war children" or "krigsbarn", were officially registered as children of "Lebensborn" , a Nazi plot devised [...]
China accused the US of numerous human rights abuses on Thursday in its Human Rights Record of the US in 2006 , the Chinese state response to US criticism in Tuesday's publication of the 2006 US State Department Country Reports . The Chinese report, its eighth consecutive annual rebuttal to the US report, cites news [...]
