The Electronic Privacy Information Center has announced plans to file a federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Thursday against the US Justice Department seeking the release of documents about the department's role in the...
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The Nepalese government on Thursday arrested over 52 senior politicians and activists in an apparent attempt to shut down an anti-government rally planned for Friday in the capital. The government banned demonstrations and imposed a night curfew...
The Iraqi Ministry of Justice said Thursday that the US military would release six Iraqi women prisoners from Abu Ghraib prison , but insisted the release is not in response to threats from a...
Detainees held at Guantanamo Bay were able to provide valuable information in connection with last year's London bombings , Army Maj. Gen. Jay Hood, who is in charge of the prison, said Wednesday. Hood...
A leaked UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office memo says that while undertaking or cooperating with extraordinary rendition of terror suspects to countries where they could face a real risk of torture could never be...
World Report 2005, Human Rights Watch, released January 13, 2005 [examining human rights developments in more than 60 countries in 2005, and alleging that the US has made deliberate and blatant use of torture and the inhumane treatment of prisoners...
White House spokesperson Scott McClellan Wednesday dismissed findings from the latest Human Rights Watch annual report alleging that the US has made deliberate and blatant use of torture and the inhumane treatment of prisoners in...
UK fathers' rights group Fathers 4 Justice announced Wednesday that it would disband after the Sun newspaper published a report that some of its members planned to abduct the 5-year-old son of British Prime Minister...
Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday asked his defense minister to create a plan for removing 24 Jewish settler outposts, deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice , from the Palestinian West Bank....
The US military confirmed Wednesday that it currently holds at least 8 female prisoners as security threats at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad after captors of an American journalist demanded the US free all Iraqi...
