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...
UN rights body calls on Canada to investigate reports of complicity in torture
The UN Human Rights Committee urged in a report Wednesday that Canada open an investigation into allegations that its law enforcement agencies cooperated in the torture of several Canadian citizens detained in Middle Eastern...
Canadian opposition calls for expanded probe on rendition cases
Leaders of Canada's three opposition political parties said Thursday that the government should launch an expanded probe into situations where Canadian citizens have been investigated by federal authorities but tortured abroad, echoing a similar request made by human rights...
Rights groups press Canadian government for new probe on rendition cases
Human rights groups are pressuring the Canadian government to open a new investigation into the role the government played in allegedly allowing a number of Muslim Canadians to be imprisoned and tortured in Syria. Testimony ended Thursday in an...
Late Canadian PM's son derides detentions without charge in court hearing
The son of late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau , the architect of Canada's civil rights charter, denounced the Canadian government's controversial use of security certificates to indefinitely detain uncharged terror suspects in a court hearing...
Syrian human rights leader acquitted of anti-government activity
Leading Syrian human rights activist Aktham Naisse , was acquitted of all charges by a Syrian State Security Court Sunday. Naisse, chairman of the Committees for the Defense of Democratic Liberties and Human Rights in Syria,...
Report on government assurances against foreign torture [HRW]
Still at Risk: Diplomatic Assurances No Safeguard against Torture, Human Rights Watch , April 15, 2005 [reporting that governments in both North America and Europe have negligently relied upon promises of humane treatment in order to transfer terror suspects to...
Leading Friday's international brief, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque announced Friday that Cuba rejected the UN Human Rights Commission resolution calling on Cuba to allow a special envoy to visit...
International brief ~ ICJ could get Japan-S. Korea islands dispute
In Friday's international brief, Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro told a press conference Thursday that despite a harshly worded 'letter to the people' released by South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun Wednesday, Japan would...
JURIST Guest Columnist Admiral John Hutson (Ret. USN), former Navy Judge Advocate General, President and Dean of Franklin Pierce Law Center, and now a party to the ACLU torture suit against Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, wonders what myriad reports of...
