Human rights lawyers: Expand war crimes probe of U-S officials
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FRANKFURT, Germany U-S based human rights lawyers are asking German prosecutors to investigate the U-S attorney general nominee for possible war crimes.
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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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Indonesia's police said they will seek assistance from the United States to speed up their probe into murder of respected Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib.
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An official said there was a debate within the Bush administration over whether to press for an international investigation.
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Violations of human rights by the US are undermining international laws, a leading rights group says.
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Members of a U.S. military commission are being challenged by defense attorneys who say their ties to the war on terror could affect their ability to fairly judge four detainees charged with war crimes.
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THE HAGUE -- Overriding the defendant's objections, the UN war crimes tribunal appointed two lawyers to represent Slobodan Milosevic yesterday, hoping to speed up the long-delayed trial and curb the former Yugoslav leader's courtroom theatrics.
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Human Rights Watch said Monday it had uncovered two more cases of prisoners dying in American custody in Afghanistan, and it accused the Bush administration of "dragging its feet" on investigations that could have prevented the abuse of prisoners in Iraq.
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The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations called on Tuesday for a full investigation into alleged corruption in contracts worth some $610 million linked to U.N. peacekeeping missions.
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Amnesty International on Wednesday renewed its call for the United States to set up an independent investigation of the abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo Bay and at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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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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A three-strong team of experts will  travel to Lebanon on Saturday to begin a probe into allegations  of human rights violations by Israel during last month's war, a  top United Nations official announced on Monday.
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An international legal team has filed a criminal complaint against US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials over the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.
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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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The United Nations needs greater  investigative powers to probe its own activities and root out  fraud, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
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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 House subcommittee investigating the United Nations oil-for-food program expanded its inquiry on Tuesday to the Bush administration&#39;s postwar stewardship of Iraq&#39;s oil money.