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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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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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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) |
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Rice: US cautious over Gitmo detainees' release
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that the US will be cautious in deciding on the release of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay on terror suspicions. Rice said the decisions were a "delicate balance" between ensuring US s (More) |
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Gitmo review tribunals wrap up; 38 detainees ordered released
The Defense Department said Tuesday that Combatant Status Review Tribunals for all Guantanamo Bay detainees have been completed. Navy Secretary Gordon England , who has overseen the CSRT process, announced that 38 of 558 detainees were determined (More) |
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Former Gitmo detainees remain imprisoned without charge in Pakistan
More than three dozen Pakistanis transferred to their home country from detention at Guantanamo Bay remain imprisoned, most without charge, Pakistani government officials have said. The prisoners include 32 transferred by the US in September 2004 an (More) |
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UK report accusing US of human rights violations [UK Parliament]
Human Rights Annual Report 2004, UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, March 25, 2005 . Excerpt:We conclude that United States personnel appear to have committed grave violations of human rights of persons held in detention in various facilities (More) |
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UK report accuses US of human rights violations in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay
The UK parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee released its annual report on human rights Friday, accusing the US of committing "grave violations of human rights" against prisoners in Guantanamo Bay , Afghanistan and Iraq. The committe (More) |
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French authorities jail former Gitmo prisoner
A French court Friday ordered former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ridouane Khalid jailed, and former Gitmo detainee Khaled ben Mustafa, who was already in custody, to remain behind bars. Both men were detained at the US military prison since 2002 unti (More) |
First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia
On September 5, 1774, the first assembly of the Continental Congress, forerunner of the US Congress, convened in Philadelphia to protest the so-called "Intolerable Acts" passed by the British Parliament. Review the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress.
