EU-U.S. extradition treaty worries U.N. rights expert
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A new extradition treaty between the European Union and the United States could be used to legitimize extra-judicial transfers of terrorist suspects and needs clarification, a U.N. expert said on Tuesday.
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After a spate of disputes between the U.S. and the European Union over privacy safeguards, the U.K.'s information commissioner is calling for international harmonization of data-protection rules.
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The United States must set a better example for the world in areas ranging from its treatment of Latin American migrants to its handling of detainees in the war on terror, U.N. human rights experts said Monday.
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Belarus believes that the United States has big problems with the observation of human rights, including the meeting of commitments to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the republic's ...
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Gary McKinnon, accused of breaking into NASA networks, is fighting extradition to the U.S. where he could face antiterrorism charges.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday refused to halt extradition proceedings against three British bankers wanted in the United States on Enron-related fraud charges.
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A U.N. human rights expert said Wednesday he found on a recent visit to Guantanamo Bay that the prison camp is not meeting international justice standards.
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Europe and the United States should  boost information exchanges on terrorists, the EU's top justice  official said on Friday ahead of President Bush's visit to  Europe next month.
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BERLIN -- The State Department's top lawyer said yesterday that the United States would refuse to extradite CIA officers who face kidnapping charges in Italy, saying European criminal prosecutions of US agents were harming trans-Atlantic counterterrorism efforts. An Italian court issued indictments against 25 CIA operatives and a US Air Force officer on Feb. 16, charging them with kidnapping a ...
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A lawyer for a Moroccan wanted in Spain for alleged links to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States told an extradition hearing Monday that it is a case of mistaken identity.
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LONDON -- The European Union threw its weight behind Britain yesterday in a dispute with Russia over its refusal to extradite a man suspected of killing a former KGB agent in London last year.
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Suspect John Mark Karr on Friday awaited extradition to the United States, where questions mounted over whether his stunning confession related to the slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was that of a killer or merely someone obsessed with the case.
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U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill.
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A U.N. human rights expert is calling on the United States to try release suspects detained as enemy combatants and to move quickly to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
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United Nations human rights   investigators said on Thursday that legislation proposed by   U.S. President George W. Bush for tough interrogations of   foreign terrorism suspects would breach the Geneva Conventions.
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The U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.
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&quot;Technically, Mark Thatcher could be extradited to stand trial in Equatorial Guinea. Although there&#39;s no extradition treaty between South Africa and Guinea, both countries are signatories to various conventions