China accused the US of numerous human rights abuses on Thursday in its Human Rights Record of the US in 2006 , the Chinese state response to US criticism in Tuesday's publication of the...
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Reporters barred from status hearings for 'high-value' Guantanamo detainees
Reporters will not be allowed to attend hearings that will determine if the 14 "high-value" terror suspects who were transferred to Guantanamo Bay from secret CIA prisons last September are "enemy combatants,"...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday criticized the poor human rights records of several US allies and denounced the genocide in Darfur while announcing the publication of the...
Taiwan president call for new constitution draws mixed reactions
Taiwanese President Chen Shui-Bian has renewed calls for a new constitution for the country, prompting mixed reaction from the United States and mainland China. Speaking Sunday at a banquet hosted by the pro-independence...
The Chinese parliament will consider amending a law allowing the state to send criminal suspects to labor camps without a trial during the National People's Congress (NPC) scheduled for next week, the China Daily reported...
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that the recent ruling by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on habeas-stripping under the Military Commissions Act was erroneous and is...
The United States Friday rejected an international call to ban the use of cluster munitions by 2008. State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack told reporters at a daily press briefing ...
China newspaper editor convicted of embezzlement has sentence reduced
Jailed Chinese newspaper ex-editor Yu Huafeng has had his eight-year sentence reduced by one year, according to Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao Daily News on Thursday. Huafeng and his colleague Li...
US senators should back Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act
Thomas Nash : "Efforts to ban or restrict the use of cluster munitions are ongoing in dozens of countries around the world and have been spreading in response to growing awareness of the humanitarian problem and increased...
A law is currently being drafted in the Rwandan Parliament that would limit families to having three children in order to curb increasing poverty levels , an official said Wednesday. Although the law as drafted does...