UN panel urges Canada not to deport Mexican who claims he was tortured at home
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GENEVA  - A United Nations human rights panel said Tuesday that Canada should not deport a Mexican man who claims he was tortured by the military in his homeland.
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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has issued a report that sharply criticizes federal immigration authorities for rounding up asylum-seekers at the border, detaining them for months in prisonlike facilities and quickly dispatching them back to the countries they fled.
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TORONTO, Sept. 18 -- Canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to Syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found Monday.
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A formal Canadian protest to Washington   appeared to be planned on Tuesday as the result of an official   inquiry into the U.S. deportation in 2002 of a Canadian citizen   to Syria, where he was subsequently tortured.
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A Canadian report offers rare insight into the flimsy evidence used by the U.S. to deport a Canadian man for his alleged ties to Al Qaeda.
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The U.N. torture investigator charged on   Friday that a new U.S. law for tough interrogation of terrorism   suspects would deprive people of the right to a fair trial   before independent courts and could lead to mistreatment.
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Mexican soldiers tortured, raped and murdered civilians last year while fighting a war across the country against violent drug gangs, the nation's top human rights official told lawmakers on Wednesday.
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A human rights group claimed Tuesday at least 11 al-Qaida suspects have vanished while in US custody and some were exposed to torture.
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A UNITED Nations human rights panel has expressed concern that British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have been breaking the global treaty against torture.
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Amnesty International raised concerns on Wednesday over President Felipe Calderon's use of troops to control Mexico's spiraling drug violence, fearing rights abuses and echoing worries of the United Nations.
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U.S. immigration officials have told their agents not to sedate deportees without a court order, according to a memo obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
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OTTAWA --Canada is under pressure over the case of an Al Qaeda suspect who relatives say was tricked by Canadian agents into going to the United States, where he faces five terrorism-related charges.
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VANCOUVER  (CP) - A man accused of sex-torture crimes - some allegedly involving children in foreign countries - will go to trial, a provincial court judge ruled Thursday.
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A US-based human rights group has challenged Americaâs treatment of 11 al-Qaeda suspects, saying some have âdisappearedâ in US custody while others may have been tortured.
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Authorities are investigating whether a suspect in the kidnapping of three U.N. workers was tortured before he died in police custody, an official said Sunday.
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The U.S. government cannot deport an Egyptian man accused of murder in his homeland because of the risk he would be tortured if he were returned, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
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A federal judge refused to order U.S. authorities to help in the search for a mentally disabled man whose family claims he was wrongly deported to Mexico.