Canada police commissioner resigns after botched testimony in Arar case
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli resigned Wednesday after admitting that he gave incorrect testimony to a Canadian House of Commons committee about the Maher Arar case....
A scheduled Saturday meeting of the Lebanese cabinet on the establishment of an international tribunal to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri has thrown Lebanon into crisis again even...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak spoke out against the pending execution of Saddam Hussein Thursday, saying it could push Iraq into even greater violence. Mubarak, believed to share the views of many Arab...
Canada judge rules terror definition in anti-terror law unconstitutional
An Ontario Superior Court judge struck down a central provision of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act Tuesday, saying it violates the constitutional rights of Momin Khawaja . Lawyers for Khawaja, the first person charged under...
North Korea, Middle East nations urged to join chemical weapons ban
Rogelio Pfirter , director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has urged North Korea and several Middle Eastern countries, including Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and Syria, to join the Chemical Weapons...
The National Organization for Human Rights in Syria announced Friday that the release of jailed Syrian writer and activist Michel Kilo , who was set to be released on bail Thursday, has been delayed...
Canada court strikes down secrecy law provisions in Arar reporter case
A Superior Court of Ontario judge Thursday threw out part of a secrecy law invoked to search a reporter's home for the source of the story she published on Maher Arar . Juliet O'Neill ,...
Rights group says Hezbollah used cluster bombs in Mideast conflict
Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirmed for the first time Thursday that Hezbollah used cluster bombs during the recent conflict with Israel. According to HRW:International humanitarian law (the laws of war) obliges warring parties...
President George W. Bush signed two bills into law Friday separately imposing sanctions on North Korea and Sudan in light of the former's nuclear test earlier this week and reports of continued atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region...
Three Canadians tortured in Syria seek Arar-style case review
Three Canadian citizens supported by Amnesty International Canada demanded an official inquiry into their cases Thursday along the lines of that undertaken for Maher Arar to determine what role Canadian security forces played in...
