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Human trafficking still major problem: US report
Progress in eliminating human trafficking which victimizes some 800,000 worldwide is slow, and countries such as Belize, Burma, Iran, Laos, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe have failed to effectively combat (More) |
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Saudi Arabia releases three former Guantanamo detainees
Saudi Arabia has freed three former Guantanamo Bay detainees who were repatriated there last year. According to an Interior Ministry source, the three "admitted to have been present in troubled areas without obtaining the consent of their pare (More) |
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Transferred Saudi detainees arrive home from Guantanamo
Fifteen Saudi detainees who were being held at Guantanamo Bay arrived in Saudi Arabia on Friday. The US transferred the detainees to Saudi custody after the transfers were approved by a Guantanamo Administrative Review Board . Saudi Foreign Minist (More) |
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US to transfer 16 Guantanamo detainees to Saudi custody: Saudi foreign minister
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal has said that 16 Saudi detainees now held by the US at Guantanamo Bay will be returned to Saudi Arabia in the next few days. During an interview with US media Wednesday, al-Faisal said that after their return (More) |
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Guantanamo military commission trial stay [US DC]
Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi v. George Bush et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Emmett Sullivan, May 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Federal judge stays Guantanamo military commission trial of Saudi terror suspect
A federal judge Friday stayed the military commission trial of a Saudi Arabian man who has been held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay since 2002 for allegedly plotting with members of al Qaeda to build car bomb detonators in Pakistan and sen (More) |
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UN rights chief welcomes elections to new rights council, but US critical
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday called the election by the UN General Assembly of 47 member states to founding seats on the new UN Human Rights Council [official website; JURI (More) |
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Russia, China, UK, Canada among 47 states elected to UN Human Rights Council
The UN General Assembly Tuesday elected 47 member states to founding seats on the new UN Human Rights Council [official website; JURIST news archive]. The successful candidates included Russia and China, which recently have come under US criticism [ (More) |
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US religious freedom commission concerned about former Soviet republics
The US government Commission on International Religious Freedom (CIRF) on Wednesday called for increased action to combat decreasing religious freedom in former Soviet republics Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and for more monitoring of Belarus and Ru (More) |
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Saudi Arabia setting up terror court
An advisor to the Saudi Justice Ministry has said that Saudi Arabia is in the process of setting up a new state security court to try terror suspects, according to Saudi daily Okaz . A panel of between five and seven top judges nominated by the jus (More) |
UN deadline for Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait expires
On January 15, 1991, the deadline issued by United Nations for Iraq to withdraw its troops from of Kuwait expired. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 678, giving Iraq until January 15, 1991 to leave.
