The Pentagon released a report Friday indicating that over 80,000 people have been detained in numerous facilities world-wide since the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. The report comes amid increased criticism by human rights groups and European organizations...
READ MORE ▸
Tunis Commitment, final declaration of the World Summit on the Information Society, November 18, 2005 . Read the...
A US federal court jury Friday found against a former Salvadoran Army colonel , holding him responsible for murder and torture carried out during the El Salvador civil war in the 1980s. The jury heard...
The US House of Representatives voted Friday to repeal a trade program passed in 2000 which the World Trade Organization (WTO) has determined to be a violation of global trade laws . The Continued Dumping and...
A former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has called US Vice President Dick Cheney a "vice president for torture," saying that the Bush administration condones and even approves torture policies. Admiral Stansfield Turner,...
Iraqi Special Tribunal officials Thursday denied reports that Saddam Hussein was attacked and punched several times by two court clerks after he insulted two Shiite saints during an interrogation session. Chief prosecutor...
The US Department of Justice has downplayed the conclusions of a 51-page memo indicating that a Georgia voter identification law will harm black voters, saying the information was based on old data and...
A district court in Kiev Friday reinstated Svyatoslav Piskun as Ukraine's prosecutor general after Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dismissed him last month. Piskun accused the president of terminating him because he began an investigation into...
Government lawyers have defended US treatment of a suicidal Guantanamo Bay detainee in court papers filed this week, claiming that he is receiving appropriate mental health care and otherwise being treated humanely. Jumah Dossari [Amnesty International...
Federal prosecutors have charged an official of St. Tammany Parish with accepting kickbacks to arrange a debris-removal contract as part of the Hurricane Katrina cleanup. St. Tammany Parish Council member Joseph Impastato...
