UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Sunday criticized Nepal for failing to hold military and government officials accountable for human rights abuses. Arbour spoke on the anniversary of...
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Human Rights Watch on Sunday called on Kenya's political leaders to enact reforms that would hold both recent and past human rights violators accountable for their actions in order to ensure lasting stability in the country. HRW's...
Moussaoui constitutional rights violated in terror prosecution: lawyers
Lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui said their client's guilty plea and life prison sentence should be overturned because his constitutional rights were violated, according to court papers released Friday. The 207-page brief filed in the US Court...
Australia Aborigines filing lawsuits after official apology for historic mistreatment
Australian Aborigine groups said Friday they are preparing lawsuits in response to an offical apology delivered Wednesday by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in an address to Parliament, publicly accepting responsibility for the historical...
US military judge rules Hamdan lawyers can question top terror suspects
US military judge Navy Capt. Keith Allred has ruled that lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan can send written questions to Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other alleged high-level al Qaeda...
East Timor issues 12 arrest warrants for suspects in attempted assassinations
East Timor's attorney general said Friday that 12 arrest warrants have been issued for suspects in this week's attacks against East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao , but did not release the names...
US government appeals 'enemy combatant' evidence ruling to Supreme Court
The Bush administration filed a petition for certiorari with the US Supreme Court Thursday in the case of Gates v. Bismullah, seeking to limit the information it must provide to courts in...
Chad president declares state of emergency banning public meetings, censoring press
Chadian President Idriss Deby Thursday declared a state of emergency throughout Chad , citing increased violence between government forces and rebels in the capital city of...
Bush urges House to pass surveillance bill with telecom immunity backed by Senate
US President George W. Bush Wednesday urged the House of Representatives to immediately pass the version of the FISA Amendments Act passed by the Senate this week. The US Senate voted 68-29 [JURIST...
US Senate passes surveillance bill with telecom immunity grant
The US Senate on Tuesday voted 68-29 in favor of the FISA Amendments Act , legislation intended to replace the temporary Protect America Act in modernizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Protect America Act...