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Europe rights watchdog condemns US Guantanamo practices
The Council of Europe, the continent's human rights watchdog institution, condemned US detention practices at Guantanamo Bay Tuesday in a sharply-worded resolution passed by the parliamentary assembly of the 41-nation body accusing the US of ha (More) |
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Rights group calls for special prosecutor to investigate abuse roles of Rumsfeld, Tenet
Human Rights Watch issued a report Saturday calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the roles of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet in connection with US mistreatment and torture of prisoners at Abu (More) |
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UN rights commission ends final session
The UN Commission on Human Rights ended its 61st and possibly last session Friday in the wake of UN Secretary Kofi Annan's announced plans to radically overhaul the 53-member body. Annan and others in the international community have criticiz (More) |
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Senior senator calls for probe of US intel role in prisoner abuse
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) , ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has called for a congressional investigation of the role played by US intelligence officials in prisoner abuse scandals in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay (More) |
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UN rights body approves Sudan resolution, rejects Cuba call for Gitmo probe
The UN Human Rights Commission Thursday passed a resolution condemning rights abuses in Sudan. The final text, supported by the US, the EU, other African nations and even Sudan itself, only passed after a compromise was reached on wording that als (More) |
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Indicted US terror suspect running for UK parliament from prison
Suspected terrorist Babar Ahmad announced Wednesday through his political party that he will run for election to the UK parliament on May 5 from his cell in Woodhill Prison in Buckinghamshire. Ahmad has been indicted in the US for operating a we (More) |
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Former Gitmo detainees arrive in Afghanistan
Seventeen Afghan men held at Guantanamo Bay arrived in Afghanistan Tuesday and were being turned over to local officials, the Defense Department announced . The 17 Afghans and one detainee from Turkey all had their enemy combatant status lifted by (More) |
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Guantanamo detainees information [US DOD]
JTF-Gitmo Information on Detainees, US Department of Defense, March 4, 2005. Excerpt:The US Government currently maintains custody of approximately 550 enemy combatants in the Global War on Terrorism at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Many of these enemy comba (More) |
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New military report on Gitmo detainees cited to support interrogation policies
US military officials are citing a recent overview of information obtained from Guantanamo detainees as evidence that the military should be able to conduct operations at Camp Delta without intervention from the US court system. The unclassified doc (More) |
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UN rights commission condemns Israel, to vote on abuses in Sudan, Cuba
The UN Human Rights Commission passed a resolution Thursday condemning Israel's settlements on Palestinian territories by 39-2, with 12 abstentions. The resolution called for the Israeli government to reverse the policy and to take measures me (More) |
Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes
On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.
Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.
