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The UN Human Rights Council held its inaugural session Monday, convening for its first session as the replacement body for the beleaguered Human Rights Commission . The Human...

The UN General Assembly Tuesday elected 47 member states to founding seats on the new UN Human Rights Council . The successful candidates included Russia and China, which recently have come under US criticism [JURIST...

An Iranian appeals court has upheld the acquittal of the intelligence agent who was accused of murdering Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi , lawyers said Wednesday. Kazemi died in 2003, while being detained for photographing...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Greg Kehoe, US Department of Justice Regime Crimes Liaison to the Iraqi Special Tribunal in Baghdad from March 2004 until March 2005, says that while the current Ad Dujayl case against Saddam Hussein is not about...

Iran's judiciary Tuesday rejected Canada's demands that the remains of a Iranian-Canadian photographer who died in detention in Tehran be returned to Canada. Officials in Ottawa demanded last week that Iran return the body of Zahra Kazemi...

According to Iranian doctor Shahram Azam, Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi was tortured and raped during her detention by Iranian authorities before her death in July 2003. The claims by Dr. Azam contradict the...