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Evidence of prisoner abuse in facilities operated by Iraq's Interior Ministry was discovered by US inspectors as recently as February 2006, according to a report in Monday's Washington Post. According to the article, a handful of...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, a lawyer with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and the author of an amicus brief on Guantanamo detainee appeals recently filed on behalf of legal scholars in...

The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) said Tuesday that the panel has submitted a lengthy interrogatory to the US seeking information on the treatment of prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and in Afghanistan [JURIST news...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is urging French prosecutors to open a judicial inquiry into allegations that CIA-operated rendition flights stopped at French airports. A local French prosecutor has already opened a...

The US Central Intelligence Agency hid its rendition of terrorism suspects to various foreign countries by using private air carriers and "front" companies, according to a new report released by...

Manfred Nowak , the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture , has said that he is certain that the United States has secret detention facilities in Europe and has demanded access to the facilities....

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that at its 100th annual meeting this week in Washington, DC, the American Society of International Law is being called upon to take a stand on...

JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Satterthwaite of New York University School of Law says that US actions in the war on terror - especially the practice of extraordinary rendition - make a mockery of formal US insistence on the rule of...

Russian diplomat Konstantin Dolgov has requested a UN briefing on conditions in UN detention facilities following the recent deaths of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian Serb Milan Babic . Dolgov also asked Tuesday...

Chinese prosecutors are refusing to release a New York Times researcher despite receiving a court order last week dismissing the charges against him, the researcher's lawyer said Tuesday. Zhao Yan has been detained since 2004, accused of...