Rights groups warns of killings, mass arrests in Ethiopia at vote fraud protests
New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday that thousands of people have been arrested and some 36 killed across Ethiopia in skirmishes with police during election-related protests. HRW said that the deaths occured...
International brief ~ Argentine high court holds amnesty laws unconstitutional
Leading Tuesday's international brief, the Argentine Supreme Court has struck down the nation's two amnesty laws preventing former military and government officials from being investigated and prosecuted for alleged crimes and human rights abuses during...
Lawyers for detainees being held at Guantanamo say as many as six of those being held were captured before they turned 18 . One lawyer says his client was not even 15 when captured, and...
New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch said Sunday that the presidential election in Iran set for Friday cannot be free and fair because the country's unelected religious authority has approved a narrow list of candidates. A...
Rights group accuses Uzbek government of cover-up in "massacre"
New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch Tuesday accused the Uzbekistan government of attempting to cover up May a "massacre" in the city of Andijan by blocking an inquiry into the killing of protestors last month by government troops...
Rights group accuses US of allowing torture of detained citizens in Pakistan
Human Rights Watch accused the US Tuesday of allowing two US citizens of Pakistani descent to be tortured and abused while being held in Pakistan as suspected al Qaeda members. Brothers Kashan and Zain...
Egypt Sunday denied a recent Human Rights Watch report accusing it of torturing terror suspects transferred there by the US. The organization had accused Egypt of torturing prisoners which it said were transferred...
Saudi reformers calling for constitutional monarchy get prison terms
Three Saudi reformers on trial for sedition and using Western tactics in calling for the institution of a limited constitutional monarchy in Saudi Arabia were sentenced to prison terms of six to nine years Sunday. Human rights observers and...
New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch issued a report Wednesday criticizing the US and other governments in the West and Middle East for sending Islamist detainees to Egypt, a country infamous for torture . The...
Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2005 [calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the roles of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet...
