In a legal brief filed in federal court on 24 July 2009, the US administration said that it will no longer treat Mohammed Jawad – an Afghan national who has been ...
Jason Getsy, aged 33, is scheduled to be executed in Ohio on 18 August. He was sentenced to death in 1996 for a murder committed in 1995 when he was 19 years old ...
Hundreds of detainees held by the US military in Iraq are being put atrisk of execution, torture or other ill treatment as they aretransferred to Iraqi custody ...
Usra al-Hussein’s imprisonment for almost a year, may have been related to her efforts tocommunicate with an international organization regarding the detentionconditions ...
On 5 August 2009, almost 14 months after the US Supreme Court ruled that the Guantánamo detainees are entitled to a “prompt” habeas corpus hearing to challenge ...
Military commission proceedings are taking place this week at Guantánamo Bay, including on more government motions to suspend proceedings while the administration ...
Amnesty International described in March 2007 its concerns about how the rules and procedures under the Military Commissions Act failed to offer full guarantees ...
Amnesty International has condemned the excessive use of force byIranian security forces against demonstrators in Tehran commemorating the tenthanniversary of 18 ...
An investigation into 20 deaths by Rio de Janeiro's Public Prosecutors Office has implicated the officers in the formation of a death squad and unlawful killings ...
