Despite increasing pressure to close the US military prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that the government did not have any plans to shut down the facility...

The Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe released a report Thursday criticizing the United Kingdom's treatment of terrorist suspects in custody at Belmarsh Prison . In an...

Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky , former CEO of Russian oil firm Yukos , appealed his conviction on tax evasion and fraud charges Thursday to the Moscow City Court. Khodorkovsky was sentenced to nine...

As part of an administration effort to rally support for reauthorization of key provisions of the Patriot Act due to expire later this year , President Bush Thursday credited the Act with helping to secure the convictions of...

Qatar's new constitution came into force Thursday, replacing the provisional constitution of 1970. The new charter permits parliamentary elections and provides the citizens of Qatar with the power to elect two-thirds of those members. The Emir will appoint...

Recently appointed US Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq Richard Jones said Thursday that Iraq should look to Malaysia as a model for the development of the Iraqi constitution. Jones pointed out...

In a program set to begin again this year on Friday, the US government plans to fly close to 34,000 illegal Mexican immigrants back to their home country in what officials describe as an effort to...

A broad-based group of booksellers, websites, and Internet service providers filed suit in federal court in Utah Thursday, challenging a Utah law that calls for the state attorney general to create a list of...

Racial and Religious Hatred Bill, reintroduced in the British House of Commons, June 9, 2005 . Read the full...

Report to the Government of the United Kingdom by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), Council of Europe, June 9, 2005 [criticizing the UK's treatment of terrorist suspects in custody...