Rights Groups Call for End to Secret Detentions
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Six human rights groups released a list of 39 people they believe have been secretly imprisoned by the U.S.
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Rights groups on Thursday gave a   guarded welcome to the Bush administration's new rules for   treatment of detainees, but said U.S. officials should not try   top al Qaeda suspects in "kangaroo court" tribunals.
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The United States is violating international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end to such practices.
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Director Gavin Hood hopes his film  "Rendition" about the U.S. practice of deporting suspected  terrorists to foreign jails will raise public awareness and  help stop abuse of human rights in the name of national  security.
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Rights group Amnesty International condemned Pakistan over abuse of terror suspects, claiming hundreds had been &quot;disappeared,&quot; while many were tortured before being sold on to US authorities.
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Amnesty International will hold international protests Friday to press for the closure of the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, six years after the first detainees arrived, the group said.
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Nearly 40 people are missing after being held in secret CIA prisons, a report by Human Rights Watch claims.
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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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Human rights organisation Amnesty International calls for an end to forced evictions in Cambodia.
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A coalition of human rights groups has drawn up a list of 39 terror suspects it believes are being secretly imprisoned by U.S. authorities and published their names in a report released Thursday.
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KABUL - An international rights group said it knows of more prisoners dying in US military custody in Afghanistan and called on Washington to reveal details of the cases.
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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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European nations have requested the Maldives authorities to give them access to activists detained after last week's pro-democracy demonstrations, diplomatic sources said.
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The European Union on Friday called on the United States to respect international law in its handling of terror suspects after President Bush acknowledged his country had operated secret prisons abroad.
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MOSCOW, Nov 30 (IPS) - Three human rights organisations have said that  abductions and torture are rampant in Chechnya despite the  relative calm.
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U.N. human rights chief Louise Arbour   called on the United States on Friday to abolish secret   detention for terrorism suspects, saying transferring 14 CIA   detainees to Guantanamo Bay was not enough.
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STRASBOURG, France  - Rights groups have urged European Union lawmakers not to dilute on Wednesday a report that accuses their governments of colluding with the CIA on alleged secret flights of terrorism suspects in the bloc.