Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq, Amnesty International, March 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper...

UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson said Monday that he is "encouraged" by the public support of five Nobel Peace Prize winners for the proposed UN Human Rights Council. Former US president Jimmy Carter [official...

French President Jacques Chirac , German Chancellor Angela Merkel , and other conservative European politicians have been meeting in private to discuss plans to revive the European Constitution [official...

An expert for Europe's largest security organization said Monday that prisoners held at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay are treated better than inmates in Belgian jails, after he returned from a visit to the...

Opening arguments began Monday in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui with government prosecutors claiming the defendant's lies to the FBI when he was arrested in August 2001 could have prevented the Sept. 11...

The judge who will sentence Jack Abramoff has refused a joint motion by the defense and prosecution to delay for months the hearing that will determine the former Republican lobbyist's prison term. Although US District Judge...

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the boundaries of the 1995 Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) in a set of cases that will further specify when and how prisoners can...

The UK House of Lords dealt another major legislative setback to the anti-terrorism policies of the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair Monday by voting down for a second time a bill designed to establish a UK...

The Hamas-controlled Palestinian Legislative Council on Monday voted to strip Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of powers given him last month by the lame-duck parliament dominated by Abbas' Fatah party . Among those was...

United Arab Emirates state-owned company Dubai Ports World Monday received the go-ahead to take over British shipping company P&O , after the UK's Court of Appeal declined to hear an appeal from Miami-based Eller...