Search Results for: 2008-01-23

UN and Cambodian officials on Wednesday announced the establishment of an independent counselor to oversee anti-corruption efforts at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . The parties mutually agreed to...

The government of Myanmar received widespread international criticism after jailing democracy advocate and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi Thursday for violating the terms of her house arrest. Myanmar's military junta...

An Iranian woman sentenced to death for a murder committed as a juvenile was secretly executed Friday, drawing criticism from human rights groups. Delara Darabi, a 23-year-old Iranian artist sentenced to death six years ago as a juvenile on...

Austrian Interior Minister Maria Fekter said Monday that the country would not accept released Guantanamo Bay  detainees from the US, according to a report by the Associated Press. Fekter said the detainees could pose a security...

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday passed a resolution condemning Myanmar for human rights violations and calling on the military junta to desist from politically motivated arrests and release nearly 2,100 political prisoners,...

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted a motion by the US government to dismiss as moot an appeal challenging the indefinite detention of suspected al Qaeda operative Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri...

Myanmar's military government has granted amnesty to 23 political detainees and more than 6,300 other prisoners, Thailand-based human rights group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said Sunday. Among those freed were members of the National League...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Horowitz, Research Director at human rights and public interest investigation firm One World Research, says that notwithstanding the pending closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison and all the publicity surrounding that, if the US government...

Venezuela will renew its request that the US extradite anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles , an official announced on Friday. Venezuela is hopeful that the new Obama administration will be more receptive to the request...

US President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered a review of the detention of Qatar national Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri . Al-Marri is the only individual currently being held on US soil by...