UN panel urges Britain to publish findings of Iraq torture probes
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The UN's anti-torture panel has urged Britain to publish the findings of investigations into alleged cases of torture by British forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report obtained by AFP.
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The British Foreign Office said Friday that it was checking unconfirmed reports which said that British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been killed by militants in Iraq.
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A U.N. anti-torture panel said Friday it had credible reports of unofficial detention centers, abuse and disappearances in Russia's restive southern province of Chechnya.
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LONDON - A British parliamentary committee accused the government on Sunday of breaking European human rights law with its curbs on terrorism suspects and urged it to do more to prosecute suspects ...Comment
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A United Nations human rights body said  on Friday it had asked the United States to spell out the legal  status and treatment of people it is detaining in Afghanistan,  Guantanamo Bay and Iraq by the end of the year.
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A fter a prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, the International Committee of the Red Cross has reportedly found that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay are subjected to interrogation methods that are &quot;tantamount to torture.
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The group Human Rights Watch said in a report released Sunday that U.S. military commanders encouraged abusive interrogations of detainees in Iraq, even after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal called attention to the issue in 2004.
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The UK government should investigate the death of an Iraqi in the custody of British troops because the country is bound by the European Convention of Human Rights, a London court ruled.
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A United Nations human-rights committee has voiced its concerns that British forces do not adhere to the international treaty against torture in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The independent, bipartisan panel studying U.S. policy in Iraq said on Wednesday it will release its conclusions on December 6 in a report that could help guide U.S. President George W. Bush's conduct of the war.
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A United Nations panel on Wednesday recommended an independent probe into alleged human rights violations in Ethiopia&#39;s Ogaden region, where the army has cracked down on rebels.
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A United Nations anti-torture body has criticised Britain for the &quot;unsatisfactory&quot; conditions in its prisons, including a &quot;substantial number of deaths in custody&quot;, urging it to act at once to improve them.
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Sudanese government officials responsible for the slaughter in Darfur and U.S. officials tied to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq should be held accountable and prosecuted, Human Rights Watch said in its annual world survey released on Thursday.
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A confidential U.S. Army report  warned of abuse of Iraqi detainees by the CIA and other U.S.  military forces in December 2003, more than a month before  mistreatment at the Abu Ghraib prison was uncovered, The  Washington Post reported Wednesday.
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This poll has been closed, view the result of this poll. LONDON, July 15 (Online): An official British inquiry on Wednesday lambasted the state of pre-war intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass ...
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CONVENED in the wake of the crisis over Iraq, a UN high level panel appointed by Secretary General Kofi Annan Thursday delivered a historic report that leaves
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A high-level panel investigating  U.S. military detention operations has concluded that top  Pentagon officials and the military command in Iraq contributed  to an environment in which detainees were abused at Abu Ghraib  prison in Iraq, a defense official said on Tuesday.