Uygur victims of south China toy factory brawl condemn Xinjiang riot ...
Rights report targets Canada over missing women, land claims Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 8:47 AM ET Comments40...
'Good without God' ad campaign raises questions in Vancouver Similar ads rejected in Victoria and Halifax Last Updated: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | 2:04 PM PT Comments84...
UN Security Council must not fail civilians caught in Gaza conflict 5 January 2009 Amnesty International today urged the UN Security Council to take firm and decisive action to address the increasingly grave situation in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel. “Civilian casualties and destruction in Gaza are on an unprecedented scale. T...
1 dead, several injured by blasts in China's Xinjiang region Last Updated: Saturday, August 9, 2008 | 7:16 PM ET Comments3...
Australian TV shows what it says are new photos of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse 11:07:03 EST Feb 15, 2006 MERAIAH FOLEY SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - An Australian television network broadcast photographs and video clips Wednesday that it said were previously unpublished images of the abuse of Iraqis held in U.S. military custody at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. ...
UK rules out public inquiry into London transit bombing Last Updated Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:09:13 EST CBC News The British government was on the defensive Wednesday over its decision to not hold a public inquiry into the July 7 bombings in London. * INDEPTH: London Bombing "If we ended up having a full scale public inquiry ... we would end up diverting a massive amount of police and security service time," British Prime Minister Tony Bl...
White House blamed for Iraq abuses by Thursday 17 November 2005 5:12 AM GMT Karpinski: I was made a scapegoat by my colleagues The former US commander of Abu Ghraib prison says that she was held up unfairly as a scapegoat by "male warriors", but the real blame for the abuse scandal rests with military leaders and the White House. In her newly released autobiography, One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story, ...
U.S. soldiers accused of assaulting Afghan prisoners Last Updated Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:33:09 EST CBC News Two American soldiers have been charged with assaulting two detainees at a military base in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military says. A military statement issued on Sunday alleged that the two soldiers punched the prisoners in the chest, shoulders and stomach while they were being held in Uruzgan province in July. "The command rem...
Man shot by U.K. police not connected to bomb attacks Last Updated Sat, 23 Jul 2005 23:56:52 EDT CBC News British police say a man they killed on a London subway train wasn't connected to Thursday's attempted bombings in the city's transit system. * INDEPTH: London bombing investigation A surveillance camera image of a suspect taken on Hackney Road bus. (AP Photo/ Metropolitan Police) The man, identified by police as 2...
Watchdog: Israeli military probe of Palestinian civilian casualties a sham 02:26 PM EDT Jun 22 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military's investigation of Palestinian civilian casualties is a farce and encourages soldiers to think they can act with impunity, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday. The military said there was no basis to the charge. "All allegations claiming that innocents or terrorists h...
Israel criticised over civilian casualties by Wednesday 22 June 2005 12:16 PM GMT HRW says Israel probed less than 5% of fatal incidents The Israeli military investigation of Palestinian civilian casualties is a farce, according to the Human Rights Watch. In its 126-page report, the rights body says since the Palestinian uprising began in 2000, Israeli forces have killed or seriously injured thousands of Palestinians who weren't involved...
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/06/03/quran050603.html?print U.S. admits abuses to Qur'an in Guantanamo Last Updated Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:59:17 EDT CBC News The U.S. Pentagon confirmed Friday a list of abuses involving the Qur'an, Islam's holy book, by American personnel at Guantanamo Bay, but said the incidents were relatively minor. * INDEPTH: Afghanistan A story published in Newsweek last ...
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