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 reduce deaths resulting from human smuggling. Rights groups have charged that the $14.2 million dollar program does not effectively [...]

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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 websites "harmful to minors" and requires ISPs to provide customers with ways to block them. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has [...]

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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 . Excerpt: any of were in a poor mental state as a result of their detention, and some were also in poor physical condition. [...]

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Chaoulli, et al. v. Attorney General of Quebec, et al., Supreme Court of Canada, June 9, 2005 . Excerpt: The relief sought by the appellants does not necessarily provide a complete response to the complex problem of waiting lists. However, it was not up to the appellants to find a way to remedy a problem [...]

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The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda put former Rwanda education minister Andre Rwamakuba on trial Thursday despite his refusal to attend the proceedings . Rwamakuba is accused of making lists of Tutsi people to be killed and participated in killings himself; he is formally charged with genocide, complicity in genocide, extermination, and murder. He was [...]

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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Wednesday that thousands of prisoners are being held in Iraq without due process, constituting "one of the major human rights challenges" faced by the country. In a report to the UN Security Council he noted that:Despite the release of some detainees, their number continues to grow. Prolonged detention without [...]

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A Kenyan judge Thursday acquitted four men charged in the 2002 bombing of a hotel near Mombasa , ruling that prosecutors had failed to show a link between the men and the bombers or al Qaida, and that the men should not even had been charged because there was no prima facie case. Three suicide [...]

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