Amnesty International accuses Thai troops of torture in Muslim south
Amnesty International (AI) Wednesday accused Thai security forces of using "harsh or inadaquate counter-measures" in their response to Islamist/separatist terror attacks in the southern provinces of the predominantly-Buddist country. According to AI, the Thai government...
Cambodian police Wednesday arrested the vice-director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) after arresting the president of the group and a CCHR lawyer last weekend. No charges have been filed in the latest...
Egypt plans to deport 654 Sudanese refugees who were recently removed from a protest refugee camp, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Tuesday. The announcement follows reports that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) received assurances [Reuters...
Wyoming high court allows random searches under probation orders
The Wyoming Supreme Court has ruled in State v. McAuliffe , where the court upheld by a 4-1 vote the constitutionality of probation orders allowing police to randomly search the subject of the order. The decision...
As expected , the French Government on Tuesday officially declared an end to the state of emergency implemented in November to quell riots that tore through the country late last year....
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke says that as the British government's proposed Terrorism Bill proceeds through Parliament we should bear in mind that citizens of democracies expect not only the protection of individual rights, but...
A Chilean appeals court on Monday allowed ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet to post bail for six of the nine human rights charges he faces relating to Operation Colombo . Pinochet...
French President Jacques Chirac on Monday said that he plans to officially end France's state of emergency on Wednesday. The status of heightened security and increased police powers, implemented in November...
Bulgarian AIDS case should be over by mid-2006, justice minister says
Bulgaria's Justice Minister Georgi Petkanov said Monday that the Libyan trial of five Bulgarian nurses, accused of intentionally infecting over 400 patients with HIV in an attempt to discover a cure for the virus, should be finished by June...
Chile's Santiago Court of Appeals voted 21-3 Friday to strip Augusto Pinochet of political immunity in respect of a fraud charge against the 90-year-old former dictator, who was fingerprinted and photographed by Chilean police...
