Iranian human rights violations following the disputed presidential election in June were among the worst in the past 20 years, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
In Indian-occupied Kashmir, Cuba, Israel and several other places around the world, marches commemorating Human Rights Day were met with official harassment and repression.
The latest US drone strike in Pakistan is reported to have not killed a supposed al-Qaeda leader whose death, capture, suicide and escape have been repeatedly reported in a maze of media accounts.
The open letter to the Nobel Committee protesting Obama’s prize as he escalates in Afghanistan is signed by Sara Flounders of the International Action Center—a supporter of war criminals and genocide.
The Obama administration asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush administration attorney John Yoo of authorizing the torture of terrorism suspects.
The US Department of Justice announced Dec. 9 that Kuwaiti Guantánamo Bay detainee Fouad al-Rabiah has been transferred to the control of the Kuwaiti government. Al-Rabiah, a Kuwaiti national, had been held at Guantánamo Bay for nearly eight years under… Read moreGtimo detainee transferred to Kuwait
A federal judge in the District of Columbia found the US Department of Defense in contempt for failing to videotape the testimony of Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohammed Al-Adahi.
The new annual report from the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies finds that Iraq is the Arab world’s worst rights abuser for a second year running.
Colombian officials are continuing to investigate three Chiquita Brands officials suspected of involvement in the payment of paramilitary death squads in the name of the banana company.
In the wake of confused elections marred by widespread abstention, resistance leaders in Honduras vowed not to end the struggle launched June 28 when the military removed President Mel Zelaya.
On Dec. 4 the French wire service AFP reported that with 57% of the votes from Honduras’ Nov. 29 general elections officially counted, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) had revised its earlier turnout estimate down from 61.3% to about 49%…. Read moreHonduras: confusion wins in turnout dispute
Tens of thousands of laid-off Mexican electrical workers and their supporters again took to the streets of the capital to protest President Felipe Calderón’s sudden liquidation of Central Light and Power.
