Judge rejects Ashcroft claim that appeal rules not applicable in emergencies
A federal district judge Wednesday rejected a claim by former US Attorney General John Ashcroft that the government should be exempt from certain regulations during national emergencies and allowed the continuation of a lawsuit...
The US government has said that it will appeal a 22-year sentence given to Ahmed Ressam , an Algerian convicted of planning to kill travelers at Los Angeles International Airport on New Years eve in 1999....
Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has ended his four-day hunger strike , his lawyer announced Friday. Khodorkovsky began the protest after his business partner and co-defendant Platon Lebedev was placed in solitary...
Justice Department seeks dismissal of torture rendition suit on security grounds
Citing national security concerns, the US Justice Department has asked a federal district court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Canadian man who claims he was deported to Syria and tortured. Maher Arar , born in Syria...
Torture and Secret Detention: Testimony of the "Disappeared" in the "War on Terror," Amnesty International, August 3, 2005 [report that two men currently held in a Yemeni prison seem to have been kept in clandestine US detention facilities in solitary...
Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday that two men currently held in a Yemeni prison seem to have been kept in clandestine US detention facilities in solitary confinement for almost two years. The...
Iranian judiciary reports human rights violations in prisons
The Iranian judiciary released a report Saturday detailing what it called widespread instances of human rights violations, from solitary confinement to physically coerced confessions. A law passed last year banning torture is frequently ignored, according...
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Thursday condemned the 2001 Miami federal court conviction of five Cubans who spied on US anti-Castro groups , calling their long jail terms - including three...
Released US filmmaker tells of 54-day detention at Camp Cropper
Cyrus Kar, the American filmmaker detained by US forces in Iraq in May and held for 54 days after the taxi he was riding in was stopped at a checkpoint and found to be carrying timing devices...
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...
