Prisoners of conscience: Human Rights Day 2004
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Human rights experts call them "prisoners of conscience." Hundreds of them around the world are forced to live in deplorable conditions in jail cells and prison camps.
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The announcement was followed by calls from human rights groups [JURIST report] and European officials to reveal more information about the prisons, and on Friday UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise ...
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British troops on foreign operations are bound by the Human Rights Act, which bans torture and inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners, the high court ruled in a landmark judgment yesterday.
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Human rights advocates and the German media used the international forum of the St.
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NEW YORK, Sep 12 (IPS) - The government of Libya routinely subjects  migrants, asylum seekers and refugees -- primarily from  sub-Saharan Africa -- to serious human rights abuses, including  beatings, arbitrary arrests, forced returns and in some cases,  torture, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released  Tuesday.
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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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Detaining foreign terrorism suspects without trial breaks human rights laws, the UK&#39;s highest court has ruled. In a blow to the government&#39;s anti-terror measures, the House of Lords law lords ruled by an eight
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The 60th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Nazi death camp Auschwitz is marked today. Have we learnt the lessons from history?
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What better day than Children's Day to spread awareness about the link between cruelty to animals and violence against children?
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Human rights advocates from Russia are awarded the 2004 Olof Palme Prize.
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By George Jones, Political Editor and Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor. The law lords ruled by an eight to one majority that the indefinite detention of foreign suspects without charge or trial in Belmarsh prison breached their human rights.
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The United States and European  Union are undermining human rights worldwide by allowing  countries with dubious elections like Pakistan and Kenya to  pretend they are genuine democracies, Human Rights Watch said  on Thursday.
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Six human rights groups released a list of 39 people they believe have been secretly imprisoned by the U.S.
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Comment is free: Shami Chakrabarti: British moral authority is hurt by failure to practise what is preached to the world on human rights
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At the instigation of a human rights group, television shows are rethinking interrogation scenes. Even Jack Bauer is on board.
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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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The torture of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and the treatment of those held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dealt a blow to the United States' credibility as the world's leader on human rights and the fight against terrorism, a human rights group said Thursday.