U.N. expert says Guantanamo visit deepens concerns
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A United Nations human rights  investigator said his visit to the U.S. military facility in  Guantanamo Bay last week left him wondering whether it would be  possible for detainees' lawyers to mount an adequate defense.
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The U.S. military is investigating how guards failed to prevent the death last month of a Guantanamo Bay detainee, an apparent suicide in one of the most closely monitored detention camps for suspected al-Qaida and Taliban members, the top commander said Tuesday.
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Surveillance which the United States  demands Britain carry out on prisoners from Guantanamo Bay as a  condition of freeing them would divert vital resources from  more urgent threats, a British official has testified.
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A U.N. human rights expert called for the immediate release of an estimated 725 Taliban fighters taken prisoner in Afghanistan in 2001 and access to hundreds of other detainees held by U.S. forces.
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Torture may be worse now in Iraq than under Saddam Hussein, the UN's chief anti-torture expert says.
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A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay has claimed that he had been subjected to &quot;vindictive torture&quot; and death threats by the American authorities.
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The United Nations' top human rights official said Friday that waterboarding Â a tactic used by the U.S. in its battle against terror Â qualifies as torture.
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The International Committee of the Red   Cross (ICRC) will visit Guantanamo next week and will see 14   suspects recently switched from secret CIA jails, a spokesman   said on Wednesday.
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A Seton Hall law professor contends that the Defense Department has overestimated the number of former Guantanamo Bay detainees who became involved in terrorist activities after they were released from the military prison.
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Two suspected members of the al-Qaida terrorist network and an alleged Taliban official appeared Wednesday before U.S. military review tribunals in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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As the Bush administration accelerates discussions about closing the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a growing chorus of Democrats on Capitol Hill is imploring the State Department not to transfer detainees to countries that may torture them.
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A U.N. investigator accused the United States on Friday of human rights violations in its fight against terrorism, criticizing the use of military commissions to try civilians and interrogation practices.
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A UNITED Nations human rights panel has expressed concern that British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have been breaking the global treaty against torture.
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Each day, detainees in GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba, argue before anonymous military officers that they should not be there. The hearings have come under heavy criticism.
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Two men accused by the United States of fighting with the Taliban appeared before a U.S. military review panel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to determine whether they should remain held as enemy combatants, an official said Thursday.
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Torture is rampant in Iraqi prisons and   police detention centers, and may be worse than under Saddam   Hussein's rule, a U.N. human rights investigator said on   Thursday .
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The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and 13 other key suspects are set to face hearings at Guantanamo Bay.