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Evidence of torture, arbitrary detention found in Syria government centers: HRW
May 17, 2013 by Benjamin Minegar
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday urged Syrian opposition leaders and neutral international experts to safeguard evidence of torture and arbitrary detention uncovered in government intelligence facilities in Raqqa, the first city to fall to rebel forces. HRW visited the area in April and.... [more]
Chad authorities arrest war crimes suspect
May 17, 2013 by Alison Sacriponte
The Chad public prosecutor's office announced on Wednesday that it has arrested Mahamat Djibrine, a former political police chief suspected of torture and hundreds of politically motivated killings in the 1980s. Djibrine was in charge of the Directorate of Documentation and Service (DDS) political.... [more]
UN urges continued commitment to justice in Guatemala after Rios Montt trial
May 16, 2013 by Benjamin Minegar
A group of UN experts on Wednesday encouraged Guatemalan authorities to continue to seek the establishment of internal and transitional "truth and justice" in the wake of the trial of Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt. Last Friday, a Guatemalan court sentenced Rios Montt to 80 years in.... [more]
Guatemala court: government must apologize for acts of genocide
May 15, 2013 by Jaimie Cremeans
A Guatemalan court on Monday ordered the government to apologize to the Ixil Maya, an indigenous people, for acts of genocide that were committed against them when former dictator Efrain Rios Montt was in power. Montt was found guilty on Friday of the genocide, torture and rape of 1,771 Ixil.... [more]
Guatemala ex-dictator found guilty of genocide
May 11, 2013 by Elizabeth LaForgia
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty Friday of the genocide, torture and rape of 1,771 indigenous Ixil Mayans during his 1982-83 rule. The court found that Rios Montt was responsible for commanding his military forces to kill 5.5 percent of the Ixil population, who were.... [more]
HRW: Centrial African Republic rebels have committed rights violations
May 10, 2013 by Daniel Mullen
Members of the Seleka rebel coalition, which ousted President Francois Bozize of the Central African Republic (CAR) in March, committed atrocities against civilians, including pillage, summary execution, rape and torture, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Friday. Daniel Bekele, Africa director at.... [more]
UK appeals court denies government's Abu Qatada appeal
April 24, 2013 by Keith Herting
The UK Court of Appeal on Tuesday denied permission to the Home Secretary to appeal to the nation's Supreme Court the decision not to deport radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan. The appeals court refused to deport Qatada last month, fearing he would face torture if returned to Jordan..... [more]
UK court allowed government one week to seek release of US intelligence [this day at law]
April 22, 2013 by Sarah Steers
On April 22, 2009, a judge for HM Courts and Tribunals Service stated that he would allow the UK government seven days to request the release of classified information related to the detention of Binyam Mohamed from the US government, or the court would issue the request order itself. Mohamed.... [more]
Supreme Court rules against extraterritorial application of Alien Tort Statute
April 17, 2013 by Julia Zebley
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum that nothing in the Alien Tort Statute of 1789 (ATS) rebuts the US presumption against extraterritoriality and that suits challenging torture and international law violations that took place overseas cannot be.... [more]
US has engaged in torture authorized by highest officials: report
April 16, 2013 by Daniel Mullen
US authorities have engaged in the torture of detainees, and the nation's "highest officials" bear some of the responsibility, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Constitution Project, a bi-partisan legal advocacy and watchdog group. The Task Force on Detainee Treatment was.... [more]
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