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CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 11:35am neoform

BBC News -- Human rights group Amnesty International has released a highly critical report on Egypt's record on torture and illegal detention. The issue was recently highlighted by the emergence of mobile phone film of policemen raping a man with a stick. The r.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Apr 7, 2007 @ 12:32pm neoform

Washington Post -- Early during their two-week detention in Iran, a group of British sailors and marines were blindfolded, hands cuffed behind their backs, and lined up facing a wall in a prison in Tehran. Behind them, they recalled, Iranian guards cocked their guns. Hel.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 2, 2007 @ 3:57pm neoform

BBC News -- The US Supreme Court has said it will not decide whether detainees held at Guantanamo have the right to challenge their detention in US federal courts. The decision means the court will not rule on the constitutionality of an anti-terror law pushed thr.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 2, 2007 @ 8:09am neoform

Houston Chronicle -- A British resident released from Guantanamo Bay after nearly five years in captivity said Sunday his detention at the U.S. prison camp was "profoundly difficult" to endure, his first comments since his release. Bisher al-Rawi, a 37-year-old Iraqi natio.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 2:31pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- The Australian Guantánamo Bay detainee David Hicks was today formally found guilty of terrorism charges, becoming the first prisoner convicted since the detention centre was set up in late 2001. The tribunal judge, Marine Colonel Ralph Kohlmann, accep.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Feb 12, 2007 @ 10:27pm neoform

Yahoo News -- New U.S. rules for war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo fail to correct fundamental flaws that are undermining Western efforts to defeat global terrorism, the British government's top lawyer said on Monday. "The changes made are too little and too late,".. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 12:11am neoform

Al Jazeera -- Al-Marri is the only foreign national "enemy combatant" still in detention without charge in the US. Indefinite military detention "The government cannot subject al-Marri to indefinite military detention," the court's majority opinion said. "F.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 12:32pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- That call was echoed by the US state department, which also condemned the detention of other Myanmar activists, saying it showed the military government had "renewed its assault on human rights". Growing callsEarlier in the week the Association of Sou.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 2:04pm neoform

Washington Post -- The capture of thousands of new suspects under the three-month-old Baghdad security plan has overwhelmed the Iraqi government's detention system, forcing hundreds of people into overcrowded facilities, according to Iraqi and Western officials. Nearly 2.. Read More