US officials said that Algerian Guantánamo Bay detainee Lakhdar Boumediene, whose habeas corpus case went to the Supreme Court, has been released and sent to France.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the US to hold accountable those accused of committing torture under the Bush administration.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said that the CIA misled Congress about the use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques during the Bush administration.
President Barack Obama has decided to seek a delay of the release of photographs depicting abusive treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, reversing an earlier decision.
A Canadian oil company has signed a deal with Peru’s government allowing it to explore land inhabited by one of the world’s last uncontacted indigenous tribes.
The Movement of People Harmed by Dams (MAB) protested in BelĂ©m, capital of Brazil’s Pará state, to demand the release of 18 people arrested when police broke up a sit-in at the TucuruĂ dam.
The Inter-American Human Rights Court of the OAS ruled that the Honduran government shared responsibility for the 1995 murder of environmental activist Blanca Jeannette Kawas Fernández.
Dozens of Haitian activists held a sit-in at the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince to protest the lynching of a Haitian national in Santo Domingo days earlier.
The Abu Dhabi authorities have detained a brother of the president and opened a criminal investigation of a videotape in which he appears to torture an Afghan grain merchant.
Thousands fled their homes in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, after at least 35 people were killed over the weekend, while masked Islamist fighters were seen heading toward the city.
Sri Lankan government forces are accused of shelling a hospital, killing at least 47 people and wounding more than 50 others at Mullivaikal, in the besieged zone controlled by the Tamil Tigers.
Among the tens of thousands who have fled fighting in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and the adjacent Buner district are about 2,000 Sikhs who have taken refuge in a Sikh shrine in Hasanabdal.
