Iran's judiciary on Monday ordered fair appellate proceedings for a US journalist convicted this week of espionage and sentenced to eight years in prison. Iran's top judge Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi said the appeal [BBC...
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the Pakistani government to reverse a recently signed ordinance that imposes Islamic Sharia law in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)...
The government of China on Monday issued its first national plan aimed at protecting human rights. The Information Office of the State Council published the National Human Rights Action Plan of China, which sets...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday issued rulings in four cases ordering Russia to pay a total of 282,000 to compensate six families who claimed government agents abducted their Chechen relatives between...
The US Navy on Friday reassigned Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler , a military lawyer who had been in charge of defending Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr , after Kuebler filed a formal complaint against a military official overseeing...
China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) announced Wednesday that it would conduct a review of its prison system in response to the deaths of at least five inmates since February. The suspicious deaths include the...
Greek authorities are not doing enough to ensure that the nation's police respect human rights, according to a Monday briefing from Amnesty International (AI) urging the government to investigate and address "long-standing problems...
The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 193-174 Wednesday to pass a bill repealing the death penalty . The proposed legislation would amend New Hampshire's criminal code by extending the definition of first-degree murder...
US President Barack Obama reiterated his position that US policies governing the detention and interrogation of Guantanamo Bay detainees should comport with due process and international law requirements in a Sunday interview with 60 Minutes....
A spokesperson for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Wednesday that the DOJ will limit prison restrictions on John Walker Lindh , a California man known as the "American Taliban." Lindh is...
