Rights group claims US involved in secret detention of Somalis
Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed Saturday that the US, Kenya, and Ethiopia are cooperating with the transitional government of Somalia to secretly detain people who have fled the recent conflict there. HRW deputy Africa director Georgette...
Guantanamo detainee Hicks to serve most of 9-month sentence in Australia
A US military commission at Guantanamo Bay recommended sentencing Australian detainee David Hicks to seven years in prison late Friday but all but nine months of that were effectively suspended by a military...
Northern Ireland's publicly-owned City of Derry Airport and Amnesty International (AI) are discussing the implementation of an official policy barring the United States and its allies from using the airport for controversial rendition...
Argentina ex-president to face trial for alleged 'dirty war' rights abuses
Argentine federal Judge Alberto Suarez Araujo ruled Wednesday that former president Reynaldo Bignone will face criminal charges for his alleged role in disappearances and human rights abuses during Argentina's 1976-83 "Dirty War" ....
J. Wells Dixon : "In the last week, the government has released unclassified excerpts of Combatant Status Review Tribunal proceedings for four men who were transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantanamo...
Senators say US must probe claims that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was tortured
US senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) , both of whom watched last weekend's Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) hearing at Guantanamo Bay for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , insisted in a...
Dangerous Discretion: State Secrets and the El-Masri Rendition Case
JURIST Guest Columnist Aziz Huq, Director of the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, says that the El-Masri v. Tenet ruling represents a dangerous trend in "state secrets" cases towards...
Guantanamo tribunals begin top terror suspect reviews in closed-door sessions
US military hearings on whether 14 top terror suspects formerly held in CIA secret prisons qualify as "enemy combatants" began Friday at Guantanamo Bay . Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs)...
A federal judge in Argentina Thursday ordered former president Reynaldo Bignone arrested for his alleged role in disappearances and human rights abuses during Argentina's 1976-83 "Dirty War". Judge Alberto Suarez...
The CIA operated a secret interrogation and short-term detention facility for suspected terrorists from 2002 to 2004 in a Polish intelligence training school with the explicit approval of British and US authorities, according to a Raw Story...
