The CIA announced that the agency will no longer use secret overseas prisons to hold terrorism suspects—but the Obama administration has not officially abandoned the practice of “rendition.”
International protests have greeted the sentencing of two Tibetans to the death penalty for their role in last year’s protests in Lhasa. Thirty-five Tiebtan protesters were arrested in Kathmandu.
An appeals court in Baghdad reduced the sentence for Muntadar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoe at former US president George W. Bush, from three years to one year.
Italian lawmakers rejected a bid to triple the amount of time undocumented immigrants
can be detained, in a rare defeat for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling coalition.
Amnesty International is calling on Greek authorities to to address long-standing problems in policing in the wake of this year’s youth uprising .
US military judge Colonel Patrick Parrish ruled April 7 that Pentagon officials lacked the authority to dismiss Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler as defense counsel for Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr. Chief defense counsel Colonel Peter Masciola reassigned Kuebler earlier… Read moreGitmo defendant Omar Khadr’s lawyer reinstated by military judge
A jury of US Marines acquitted Sgt. Ryan Weemer of murder and dereliction for his involvement in the shooting death of a detained Iraqi during a November 2004 offensive in Fallujah.
The European Court of Human Rights issued rulings in four cases ordering Russia to pay compensate six families who claimed government agents abducted their Chechen relatives.
A Navy missile destroyer, the USS Bainbridge, has arrived to help end an ongoing standoff between Somali pirates and their American hostage off the coast of Somalia.
Hundreds of families in Somalia’s self-declared republic of Somaliland have fled inter-clan fighting, in a conflict dating to the enclave’s independence struggle in the late 1980s.
A US appeals court ruled that courts cannot prevent the government from transferring Guantánamo detainees to foreign countries on the grounds that they may face prosecution or torture.
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was found guilty of committing human rights abuses during his 1990-2000 rule by a special court in Lima.
