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UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro began his investigation Monday into the Myanmar military government's crackdown on protesters by visiting Rangoon's Insein prison and a Buddhist monastery earlier raided by troops. Pinheiro...

Pakistani lawyers detained by the government under the declaration of emergency rule issued earlier this month by President Pervez Musharraf are being tortured, according to Asma Jahangir head of the independent Human...

Andrew Wilson "Mr. Higazy's case is based on his claim that FBI Agent Templeton coerced his confession which was later used against him in a bail proceeding in violation...

A judicial panel of the British House of Lords Wednesday narrowly ruled that Scottish subjects can pursue cases related to alleged human rights abuses of prisoners by the Scottish Prison Service occurring as...

Mohammed al-Qahtani, the so-called "20th hijacker" from the Sept. 11 attacks, has disclaimed his confession about his participation in the terrorist attacks, alleging that his statements were coerced by US torture. In documents obtained by the Associated Press Friday...

A new one-page US military report obtained by the Associated Press shows that despite a decline in the number of prisoners held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay , "mass disturbances" by inmates have risen...

Iranian 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi requested the assistance of the UN Human Rights Council to end Iran's "arbitrary detention" of Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari [WWC...

Iranian Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Ejehei said Wednesday that new arrests have been made in the conspiracy cases against Dr. Haleh Esfandiari , director of the Middle East Program at the DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars...

Iranian judiciary spokesperson Alireza Jamshidi said Tuesday that government prosecutors have expanded their investigations against Iranian-American scholars Dr. Haleh Esfandiari , director of the Middle East Program at the DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Dr....

Kurdish security forces "routinely torture and deny basic due process to detainees" in northern Iraq, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report found that the Asayish security...