Prisons ban books over fear of radicals
431359
Inmates at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., were stunned by what they saw at the chapel library on Memorial Day &#151; hundreds of books had disappeared from the shelves.
97176
The Hamas-led Education Ministry lifts a ban on a Palestinian folktale book following public outcry.
543708
Children's author has said she is "horrified" after her book was banned from some US schools and libraries.
281298
Proposals to allow police to stop and question anyone in the UK under new anti-terror laws have been criticised.
184102
Â· State catalogues atrocities during dictatorship  Â· Victims' relatives join president at book launch
316034
Iranian Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi issues a bold appeal to outlaw the use of solitary confinement in jails.
136146
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.
473443
Convicted sex offenders are free to read pornography in their cells, a Swedish court ruled, saying the country's prison system had no right to deny an imprisoned rapist access to his porn magazines.
623592
ANTI-sectarian novels about the religious divide in Northern Ireland are to become texts in the English curriculum in Scottish schools in a radical bid to tackle discriminatory attitudes among pupils.
29624
The Court of Appeal quashes the convictions of five young Muslim men jailed over extremist literature.
606836
CHICAGO -- Interested inmates at Newton Correctional Facility in Iowa receive teaching material that declares: "Criminal behavior is a manifestation of an alienation between the self and God. Acceptance of God and Biblical principles results in cure through the power of the Holy Spirit....
591847
Britain proposed jail sentences of up to five years for animal rights protesters who obstruct experiments, widening its crackdown on extremists it says threaten vital medical research.
89139
Beatings with bottles, sleep  deprivation and threats of violence against relatives are all  routine forms of torture in detention centres in the rebellious  Russian region of Chechnya, former inmates say.
475071
The United States government should lift  its ban on publishing literature from countries like Cuba, Iran  and Sudan without special permission, Europe's biggest rights  watchdog said on Thursday.
508515
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Hamas-run Education Ministry has ordered an anthology of Palestinian folk tales pulled from school libraries, reportedly over mild sexual innuendo, the most direct attempt by the Islamic militants to impose their beliefs on Palestinian society.
719655
CHICAGO -- Interested inmates at Newton Correctional Facility in Iowa receive teaching material that declares: "Criminal behavior is a manifestation of an alienation between the self and God. Acceptance of God and Biblical principles results in cure through the power of the Holy Spirit. Transformation happens through an instantaneous miracle; it then builds the prisoner up with familiarity of the Bible."...
269396
Detaining foreigners without trial under emergency anti-terror laws breaks European human rights laws, law lords ruled today. The decision from nine of the law lords, who make up Britain&#39;s highest court, throws