US human trafficking report cites Islamic states for inaction
The US State Department Tuesday cited the governments of 16 countries, including 11 predominantly Islamic states, for not making a "significant effort to combat human trafficking" in its annual report on modern-day slavery around the...
A study released Friday by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has found a "substantial growth in the scale, scope and sophistication" of Internet censorship worldwide. The study, focusing on state-mandated censorship, found evidence of content...
A US Navy sailor pleaded guilty Monday at a court-martial hearing in Norfolk, Virginia, to espionage, desertion, failing to properly safeguard and store classified information, copying classified information, communicating classified information to a person...
A national of Bahrain, two Pakistani nationals and one Iranian were transferred from US custody at Guantanamo Bay into the hands of their home governments over the weekend, the US Defense Department confirmed Monday....
Bahrain's King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa has ratified a controversial protest law that some rights groups suggest could be inconsistent with common international rights standards. The Amendments to Law 18/1973 criminalizes unauthorized protests, prohibits foreign nationals from...
State Department lawyer says torture concerns complicate Guantanamo closure
John Bellinger , the top legal adviser for the US State Department , said Monday that the US would like to close its detention camp at Guantanamo Bay , but must first make sure that...
Rice urges Syria to release jailed activists, cooperate with Hariri probe
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Saturday criticised Syria for its "arbitrary detention" of human rights activists "including Kamal Labwani and all the prisoners of conscience from the Damascus Spring" during a...
Rice says US treatment of terror suspects meets international standards
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday reaffirmed that the US meets international standards in its treatment of terror suspects, despite rising debate over the issue. Rice told an American Bar...
Three Bahrainis and a Saudi national were released Saturday from detention at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay . None of the released detainees was ever charged with a crime under US law. According to a Bahraini...
Bahrain requests US investigation into Gitmo torture allegations
At the urging of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, the Bahrain Embassy in Washington has formally demanded that the US government promptly investigate charges of torture, abuse and other inhumane tactics being used against Bahraini prisoner...
