• CIA torture report delayed again

  The US Justice Department is again delaying the release of an internal CIA report on the agency’s secret detention...

   

• MoD faces Afghan civilian death pay-outs

  The Ministry of Defence has paid out, or is considering, compensation in relation to at least 104 civilian deaths allegedly...

   

• The UK DNA database needs proper scrutiny

  Last December the European Court of Human Rights decided in S and Marper v The United Kingdom that the retention by the State...

   

• Israel’s war crimes not “collateral damage”

  Israel sought to defend itself Thursday against the latest accusations by a major international organization that it committed...

   

• Big brother is watching

  The furore around the Chinese government’s Green Dam software has raised the issue of the way modern technology is used...

   

• Mandelson says No U-turn on ID cards

  Home secretary Alan Johnson’s pledge that the government will not make ID cards compulsory is not a U-turn on policy,...