Vietnam detains rights lawyers
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Two lawyers who organised Vietnam's first human rights law training are arrested, activists say.
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Six human rights groups urged the U.S. government on Thursday to name and explain the whereabouts of 39 people they said were believed to have been held in U.S. custody and "disappeared."
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Government powers enabling foreigners to be detained without limit under emergency anti-terror laws threaten the values they were designed to protect, the law lords were told today.
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Lawyers for seven Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay have asked a federal court to order their release, arguing they were captured in the same circumstances as others who already have been freed from U.S. custody.
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By BEN STOCKING  HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam has released one of its best-known dissidents from prison, two weeks before its president is to make a historic visit to the United States, an official said Sunday.
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A defense lawyer on trial accused of  helping a radical Muslim cleric smuggle terrorist messages out  of prison said Wednesday that attorneys have the right to keep  their client conversations secret from jail guards.
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MOSCOW -- A prominent human-rights activist in Uzbekistan who worked part-time as a translator for New York-based Human Rights Watch has been detained after fleeing her homeland and then attempting to return, her lawyer said yesterday. Umida Niyazova, 32, an activist with Veritas, an unregistered Uzbek human rights group, was detained near Uzbekistan's border with Kyrgyzstan on Jan. 22, according ...
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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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In a stinging legal challenge to the administrationâs detention policies, a ruling requires virtually all information to be shared with defense lawyers.
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Chinese Uighurs who have been imprisoned for the past month at a new state-of-the-art detention camp at  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are being held around the clock in near-total isolation, a circumstance their lawyers say is rapidly degrading their mental health, according to an affidavit filed in federal court yesterday....
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The United States could detain more   foreigners as enemy combatants under legislation Congress will   debate this week after a last-minute change in the bill,   lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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A Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen was  detained in mid-August, a government spokesman said on Thursday  as rights groups complained he was arrested after using the  Internet to call for alternatives to one-party communist rule.
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Britain&#39;s Law Lords has ruled that detaining terrorism suspects indefinitely and without trial violates their civil rights under the European Convention... Britain&#39;s highest court has ruled in favor of nine
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Tight deadlines, rules allowing hearsay evidence and limited access to Guantanamo Bay will hamper efforts to defend three detainees facing military trials at the Navy base in southeast Cuba, their attorneys say.
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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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Lawyers for imprisoned Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner were briefly detained at a Moscow airport Sunday, a day before new charges were expected to be filed against their clients, one of the attorneys said.
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Vietnam has released nearly 9,000 prisoners, including 10 inmates whose cases it says had drawn international attention, as part of traditional pardons granted ahead of independence celebrations on September 2.