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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, but that the detainee has the right to challenge his detention as
Read More »Westminster blasted over rights of asylum seekers
By Rachelle Money | ALEX SALMOND has blasted the home secretary on the UK’s asylum policy, accusing the government of trampling on asylum seekers’ rights by raiding families at dawn and locking them up
Read More »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 technique that has since been prohibited – the U.S. military may have exceeded even its
Read More »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 rights abuses that in some cases amount to slavery, Human Rights Watch said in a new report
Read More »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 in Insiza, Matabeleland South Province and starts smiling. “Why does that vehicle not
Read More »Are We Pro-Slavery?
By Walter Williams | Let’s do a thought experiment asking whether Americans are for or against slavery. You might say, “What are you talking about, Williams? We fought a war that cost over 600,000 lives
Read More »Clinton urges Bush to boycott Beijing Olympics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged President George W. Bush on Monday to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies this summer unless China improves human rights. Clinton, in a statement, cited
Read More »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 are to offer a £1,000 reward for the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary
Read More »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, as the Bush administration asserted that the lapsing of a surveillance law a week ago has
Read More »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 crimes is close to passage in the Maryland General Assembly, despite fears that
Read More »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 when no crime has been committed. Gary Pugh, the DNA spokesman for the Association
Read More »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 to the government consultation ‘Managing Protest around Parliament’ all seem to be aimed
Read More »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 to Labour’s plan to introduce a law that would let police detain terror suspects without charge
Read More »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, Tibetans in exile reported Wednesday. Lama Thokmey died Monday in the
Read More »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 at a growing number of businesses are starting and ending their days by
Read More »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 defence secretary, Des Browne, said today. Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist,
Read More »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 told Canada’s high court Wednesday as they sought to force the country’s intelligence service
Read More »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” he oversaw. The prisons in Iraq stink. Ask any guard or interrogator and
Read More »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 thousands of vulnerable children in care a happy and healthy childhood. Whether this will mean
Read More »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 has said, writes Matthew George. He also told the Commons Home Affairs Committee, which is
Read More »Firms’ biometrics records ‘can be hacked’
The growing use of biometrics to identify individuals is “insecure and in need of immediate attention,” according to an IT systems company. Fujitsu Siemens said biometrics is increasingly being used in the business world
Read More »Police Censorship of Smash Edo film
Police have intervened across the country to censor ‘On the Verge’ an independent documentary about a campaign to shut down a Brighton weapons manufacturer. So far establishments in Southampton, Chichester and Bath and Oxford
Read More »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 Intelligence Surveillance Act rages in Congress, civil libertarians warn that legislation sought by
Read More »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 heading to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The co-founder of the Innocence Project told senators today that
Read More »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 of human rights. Ghali was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the 4th Seminar of
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