Human rights group demands US accountability in Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON - The Asia Division of Human Rights Watch has sent a letter to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld demanding accountability in Washington for crimes allegedly committed by US troops in Afghanistan.
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In a rare admission, the United States said on Tuesday its own human rights record was in question in an annual report that criticized Iraq for its death squads with government links, kidnapping and torture.
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A US-based human rights group says at least 11 al-Qaida suspects have &quot;disappeared&quot; in US custody, and that some may have been tortured.
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Human rights groups have filed a lawsuit in France alleging that former U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld allowed torture at U.S.-run detention centers in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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A human rights group said it had evidence of two previously unreported deaths of Afghan prisoners in US custody in Afghanistan, and accused Washington of covering up abuse of detainees.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Human Rights Watch said yesterday that it has discovered two more US detainee deaths in Afghanistan, including an apparent murder more than two years ago, and said slow-paced investigations had ''spawned a culture of impunity&quot; that may have fueled prisoner abuse in Iraq.
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The US is calling on Nato to take overall responsibility for peacekeeping and reconstruction in Afghanistan. US officials are proposing the separate US and Nato missions there should merge under Nato command
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American and European rights groups filed a legal complaint in France accusing former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for torture in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay.
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Human Rights Watch said Monday that new cases had come to light of deaths of men in American custody in Afghanistan and it accused the Defense Department of operating
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The largest human rights monitoring group in the United States, Human Rights Watch, is calling on the African Union to accelerate its efforts to protect citizens in Darfur and to expand its troops.
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The U.S. military defended its human-rights record in Afghanistan on Wednesday, claiming that a May inspection by an American general found no evidence of abuse at the 22 detainee facilities in the country, while admitting that his still-unreleased report will not include any earlier incidents.
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Violations of human rights by the US are undermining international laws, a leading rights group says.
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An American civil rights group filed a criminal complaint in Germany on Tuesday alleging that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other U.S. officials condoned torture and human rights violations at Abu ...
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The United States on Wednesday joined a rights group in calling for a full investigation into the death of a Kurdish law student in Iran after he was detained in the western city of Sanandaj.
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The US is to urge Nato to take overall responsibility for peacekeeping and reconstruction in Afghanistan.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has criticized Afghanistan's parliament for granting immunity to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of war.
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Amnesty International demanded the US on Wednesday to set up an independent probe of prisonersâ abuses in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and at Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq.