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A European Parliament committee approved a report Monday that supports allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency was "directly responsible for the illegal seizure, removal, abduction and detention of terrorist suspects" in Europe....

Wednesday's Council of Europe (COE) report accusing 14 European countries of taking an active or passive role in a "global spider's web" of secret CIA prisons and rendition flights [JURIST news...

A Russia-based international human rights group claimed Wednesday that it has turned over to authorities documentary proof of the existence of Russian-operated secret prisons in Chechnya which the group claimed to have discovered in a southern district...

Alleged secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers involving Council of Europe member states, Legal Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe, June 7, 2006 [asserting that fourteen European countries collaborated with the US Central Intelligence Agency by taking an active...

The Chinese government has postponed the trial against former New York Times researcher Zhao Yan , which was scheduled to begin Thursday, Zhao's lawyer said Wednesday. Zhao was indicted for "providing state secrets to foreigners" following a...

Fourteen European countries collaborated with the US Central Intelligence Agency by taking an active or passive role in a "global spider's web" of secret prisons and rendition flights, Swiss legislator Dick Marty said Wednesday in a report ...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, one of the lead attorneys on the Center for Constitutional Rights' challenge to the NSA domestic surveillance program, says that the government's invocation of the state secrets privilege in a motion to dismiss the...

The UN Committee against Torture report released Friday on US compliance with the Convention Against Torture urged the US to do more to protect domestic prisoners and suspects from violence and threats of violence,...

The White House Friday responded to a report by the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) calling on the US to shut down its Guantanamo Bay detention facility by reinterating President...

Conclusions and recommendations of the Committee against Torture: United States of America, UN Committee Against Torture, May 18, 2006 [saying that to comply with the terms of the Convention Against Torture the US should shut down its prison for terror...