France's treatment of freed detainees raises civil liberties concerns
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When four Frenchmen returned home after more than two years in the Guantanamo netherworld, they expected some questions, followed by freedom and an apology.
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PARIS French Muslims are not blaming their government for the recent kidnapping of two journalists in Iraq. The Islamic militants who seized the reporters two weeks ago are demanding that France repeal its ban on headscarves in schools.
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PARIS -- President Nicolas Sarkozy of France disappointed thousands of prisoners yesterday by refusing to sanction a traditional Bastille Day pardon. Sarkozy's two predecessors, Jacques Chirac and Francois Mitterrand, regularly ordered the release of prisoners on the July 14 holiday, to help relieve prison crowding. But Sarkozy, who is considered a law and order hard-liner, said in an interview that ...
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The decision to seek the death penalty for detainees who will likely face war-crimes charges would present new challenges to a troubled system that has yet to begin a single trial.
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The White House&#039;s announcement Tuesday that it will apply Geneva Convention standards to suspected terrorists did little to quiet political arguing on Capitol Hill on the legal rights of detainees.
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Human rights activists protested outside a top-security jail in London where some foreign nationals have been detained without trial for almost three years under controversial anti-terrorism laws.
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The U.S. government is satisfied that France will treat former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega as a prisoner of war if he is extradited to face French money laundering charges, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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PARIS - France has begun expelling Muslim girls for wearing head scarves in public schools â-hich defies a new law banning conspicuous religious symbols â - is treading carefully for fear of endangering two French hostages in Iraq.
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France vowed Monday to press ahead with a controversial law banning Islamic head scarves in schools, despite demands by militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq that Paris revoke the ...
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Russian newspapers question the government's ability to tackle terrorism, while in France, there is hope two kidnapped journalists could soon be freed.
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The White House&#039;s announcement Tuesday that it will apply Geneva Convention standards to suspected terrorists did little to quiet political arguments on Capitol Hill over the legal rights of detainees.
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France is facing a "high and permanent" terrorist threat, the country's interior minister says.
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France has vowed not to give in to the demands of terrorists who are holding two French journalists in Iraq. Militants calling themselves the Islamic Army in Iraq have said that they will release Georges Malbrunot
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BAGHDAD, Aug 29  - For the first time since the kidnappings of foreigners started in Iraq in April, hostage takers have set conditions external to the country by demanding that France lift a ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools.
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Tunisian authorities have broken a pledge not to mistreat two former detainees at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay who were sent home nearly three months ago, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- France is pressing on with efforts to secure the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq, after a deadline to revoke a law banning Muslim headscarves in schools passed without word from the kidnappers.
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The Administration falls in line with the Supreme Court on treatment of detainees. But questions remain about how and when the new standards will be applied