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Michael J. Kelly : "From the perspective of the outside world, Gen. Michael Hayden's decision to wear his military uniform makes it appear that the military is taking over the CIA. And from their perspective, about...

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights has claimed in a new report that Russia is maintaining secret prisons in Chechnya and is using them for kidnapping and torturing...

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) officials said on Friday that the US has once again refused to grant the watchdog access to terror detainees held in covert prisons following discussions between ICRC President...

JURIST Guest Columnist Ron Dudai of the SOAS School of Law at the University of London (UK) says that the dubious US response to 9/11 has given Israel an excuse to engage in its own questionable practices, as reflected by...

Michael J. Kelly : "With Porter Goss's resignation as CIA director, President Bush is presented with an opportunity to make real and lasting changes to a broken intelligence system. The cosmetic changes of two years ago...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, a lawyer with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, says that the Zacarias Moussaoui verdict demonstrates that the best way to promote national security and democracy in the...

Shiite leaders in Iraq have indicated that they are willing to give up control of the Iraqi Interior Ministry, beleaguered in recent months by allegations of prisoner abuse and death squads . During negotiations on the...

Supporters of ousted Philippines president Joseph Estrada protested Wednesday outside the Manila courthouse where he is being tried for corruption, a day after the country's Supreme Court ruled 13-0 that current President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's...

Recently-released US military tribunal hearing records and other documents indicate at that least seven prisoners at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay were transferred abroad to jurisdictions practicing torture before their arrival at the base,...

Proposed resolution for the European Parliament based on the interim report of the parliamentary commission on alleged CIA use of European countries for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners [Projet de rapport interimaire sur l'utilisation alléguée de pays européens...