• Bush can hold terrorist suspect indefinitely: US court

  A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that President George W. Bush has the power to keep a terrorist suspect jailed indefinitely,...

   

• Westminster blasted over rights of asylum seekers

  

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  By Rachelle Money | ALEX SALMOND has blasted the home secretary on the UK’s asylum policy, accusing the government...

   

• U.S. treatment of Khadr may have exceeded military’s own guidelines

  By OMAR EL AKKAD | In subjecting Omar Khadr to the so-called “frequent flier program” – a sleep deprivation...

   

• Many migrant women workers in Saudi treated like slaves

  Saudi Arabia should implement labor, immigration, and criminal justice reforms to protect domestic workers from serious human...

   

• Zimbabwe Government Blocks Aid for Six Million In Need

  By Ephraim Nsingo | Sixty-six year old Gogo Lethiwe Ncube gazes at a distant truck cruising towards the Avoca Shopping Centre...

   

• Are We Pro-Slavery?

  By Walter Williams | Let’s do a thought experiment asking whether Americans are for or against slavery. You might...

   

• Clinton urges Bush to boycott Beijing Olympics

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged President George W. Bush on Monday to...

   

• ID card rebels offer £1,000 for Brown’s fingerprints

  Jamie Doward, home affairs editor The Observer, Sunday April 6 2008 Two of Britain’s leading civil liberties groups...

   

• More Sharp Words Traded Over Lapsed Wiretap Law

  By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON — A new round of political sparring erupted Friday over the government’s wiretapping powers,...

   

• Bill proposes violent criminals should submit DNA

  Meg Bernhardt ANNAPOLIS — A bill to allow officers to take a sample of DNA from people charged with certain violent...

   

• UK: Mass genetic surveillance

  Richard Taylor Britain’s police want to routinely put children as young as five on the National DNA Database (NDNAD), even...

   

• SOCPA: The GLA’s campaign against Brian Haw

  Having failed to get rid of Brian Haw by force the Greater London Authority is trying again by legislation, their responses...

   

• Watchdog’s threat to 42-day terror law

  Alan Travis | The Guardian The government’s own human rights watchdog threatened last night to launch a legal challenge...

   

• Monk dies from Chinese food blockade

  A Buddhist monk died of starvation due to a 12-day blockade of food and water to major monasteries in Lhasa by Chinese forces,...

   

• Fingerprint Scanners Help Companies Track Workers

  NEW YORK (AP) ― Some workers are doing it at Dunkin’ Donuts, at Hilton hotels, even at Marine Corps bases. Employees...

   

• MoD: British soldiers breached Iraqi’s human rights

  British soldiers breached the human rights of an Iraqi who died while in UK custody in Basra more than four years ago, the...

   

• U.S., Canada violated rights of Gitmo detainee

  OTTAWA – The U.S. is violating international norms by holding a Canadian former child soldier at Guantanamo Bay, his lawyers...

   

• In Iraq, Was I a Torturer? Asks Soldier

  When 27-year-old Ben Allbright returned from Iraq, he was treated like a hero. But he is haunted by the “harsh interrogations”...

   

• Children in care to get Biometric IDs

  Children in care should get school photos and passports, Ministers said yesterday, as they launched plans designed to give...

   

• Don’t extend DNA database, says minister

  The DNA database should probably not be extended and should certainly never become universal, Home Office Minister Tony McNulty...

   

• Firms’ biometrics records ‘can be hacked’

  The growing use of biometrics to identify individuals is “insecure and in need of immediate attention,” according...

   

• Police Censorship of Smash Edo film

  Police have intervened across the country to censor ‘On the Verge’ an independent documentary about a campaign...

   

• Wiretapping’s true danger

  History says we should worry less about privacy and more about political spying. As the battle over reforms to the Foreign...

   

• Panel approves DNA bill testing for convicts

  COLUMBIA – South Carolina would make DNA testing available for prisoners who claim they’re innocent under a bill...

   

• Former UN chief links democracy, human rights

  UN chief Boutros Boutros Ghali stressed here Wednesday the significance of the close relationship between democracy and defence...