Revelations that Colombia’s Department of Administrative Security illegally listened in on the phone calls of judges, politicians and journalists, prompted the resignation of the agency’s deputy director.
In a new report, Amnesty International blasts both Israel and Hamas for targeting civilians in the Gaza war, and called upon the Obama administration to cut off military aid to Israel.
Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohammed was returned to the UK after being held for seven years. It is not known if he will be permitted to remain in Britain, which he accuses of involvement in his torture.
US Army Sgt. Michael Leahy Jr. was convicted on charges stemming from the 2007 deaths of four Iraqi detainees, and was given a life sentence at a court-martial at a US military base in Germany.
The Iraqi government has reopened the prison formerly called Abu Ghraib, promising to operate the facility by international standards and allow inspections by humanitarian groups.
A report prepared for the Pentagon by US Navy Admiral Patrick Walsh under order of President Obama concluded that the Guantánamo Bay detention center meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions.
Embracing a key argument of the Bush White House, the Obama administration told a federal judge that US military detainees in Afghanistan have no legal right to challenge their imprisonment.
As a terror attack shakes Cairo, a founder of Egypt’s Islamist movement, Sayyid Imam “Dr. Fadl” al-Sharif, has released a prison memoir harshly critical of al-Qaeda and its emulators.
Judicial authorities in Iran carried out lashing sentences against labor leaders Shiva Kheirabadi and Sosuan Razani for their participation in May Day events last year, while several more unionists were arrested.
Following a wave of attacks in the wake of Israel’s Gaza aggression, the Jewish Agency is working to evacuate Yemen’s remaining 280 Jews for resettlement in Israel.
Israel shelled southern Lebanon after a rocket hit its territory, injuring three people in the western Galilee region. Hezbollah denied any involvement in the rocket attack.
Traditional indigenous authorities in Colombia issued an “ultimatum” to the FARC to return the bodies of slain members of the Awá ethnicity, or face an indigenous “minga” mobilized to confront the guerillas.
