Two years ago the release of photographs showing detainees being tortured and ill-treated by US military personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq shocked and horrified t
Malaysian human rights groups called on the Prime Minister to apply the same principle to the Kamunting Detention Centre in Malaysia, where detainees are held under th
The Egyptian authorities are committing systematic abuses of human rights in the name of national security -- and a planned new anti-terror law could make the situatio
After labelling them as threats to "national security", the UK has recently deported two men to Algeria, a country with a known record of torture and other i
Despite consistent reports of torture and other ill-treatment by Afghanistan's intelligence service, members of the NATO-led forces continue to hand detainees over to
Amnesty International has obtained disturbing first-hand accounts from
Burmese monks who witnessed the brutal attack on a monastic training
school on 25 September.
