Iran judiciary refuses to return remains of Canadian reporter
Iran's judiciary Tuesday rejected Canada's demands that the remains of a Iranian-Canadian photographer who died in detention in Tehran be returned to Canada. Officials in Ottawa demanded last week that Iran return the body of Zahra Kazemi...
UN investigator urges countries to disclose death penalty stats
Philip Alston , a UN human rights investigator speaking in Geneva Friday, urged countries to remove their "cloak of secrecy" and disclose the numbers of prisoners executed and those waiting on death row. Alston, an Australian jurist...
The death penalty worldwide: developments in 2004, Amnesty International, April 5, 2005 [reporting that the number of executions, which does not include executions that many governments fail to officially report, is the second highest figure the organization has recorded in...
At least 3,797 people were executed in 2004 and at least 7,395 people in 64 countries were sentenced to death last year, according to the annual report on the use of capital punishment released by Amnesty International ...
Doctor says photojournalist killed in Iranian detention was tortured, raped
According to Iranian doctor Shahram Azam, Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi was tortured and raped during her detention by Iranian authorities before her death in July 2003. The claims by Dr. Azam contradict the...
Commission finds massive failure on WMD intelligence; recommends reforms
A presidential commission on Thursday said US intelligence agencies know "disturbingly little" about threats posed by the nation's most dangerous adversaries, and the commission recommended more than 70 changes that President Bush can make to improve intelligence. The WMD...
Iran's Supreme Court has lifted a ban that has kept reformist newspaper Neshat from publishing since 1999. The newspaper was shut down after it criticized the country's penal system, which is based on Islamic...
Iran warns US not to call it before UN Security Council on nukes
Coincidentally on the thirty-fifth anniversary of the entering into force on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , Iran said Saturday that it was unwilling to put a permanent end to enriching uranium and warned that further US-led...
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego notes that with the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Roper v. Simmons, the United States has finally joined the community of nations that says the state-sanctioned...
US Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Jackie Sanders told the annual meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors Wednesday that the IAEA could no longer ignore its 'statutory obligations' and must...
