Rights report targets Canada over missing women, land claims Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 8:47 AM ET Comments40...
Guantanamo detainees were tortured, medical exams show Last Updated: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | 5:31 AM ET Comments109...
Elections may be cancelled if Israel bars Palestinian in Jerusalem from vote 06:52:14 EST Dec 21, 2005 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - The Palestinian Authority will cancel Jan. 25 parliamentary elections if Israel goes ahead with its plan to bar Palestinians from voting in disputed Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said Wednesday. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has been under growing pressure from his Fatah Party to postpone the vote, amid concer...
Suspected CIA flight landed at Gander: report Last Updated Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:46:07 EST CBC News A Hercules aircraft owned by a Maryland firm alleged to be a front for the CIA landed in Gander, NL., last month, according to a Canadian Press report. Records obtained by CP show the Hercules aircraft left Bob Sikes Airport in Florida and landed at Gander on Nov. 28. The next day, it headed to Prestwick Airport, near Glasgow, Scotland. The ...
Investigator of alleged CIA prisons suspects abductions, illegal transfers 13:20:29 EST Dec 13, 2005 JAMEY KEATEN PARIS (AP) - A Swiss investigator probing claims of secret CIA prisons in Europe said his committee has evidence that supports allegations that prisoners were transferred between countries and temporarily held "without any judicial involvement." "Legal proceedings in progress in certain countries seemed to indicate that individuals had been...
U.S. bans use of torture Last Updated Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:39:09 EST CBC News The United States has made a clear, direct, unequivocal statement about the use of torture. Its official policy now is to honour the United Nations ban on cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, not just at home, but around the world as well. * INDEPTH: US Security Condoleeza Rice (File photo) Questions about torture, secret prisons and myste...
Rice says cruel interrogation barred, leaves questions about U.S. practices 15:26:09 EST Dec 7, 2005 ANNE GEARAN KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave Washington's most comprehensive accounting yet of U.S. rules on treatment of prisoners in the war on terrorism Wednesday, but her assurances left loopholes for practices akin to torture. Rice said cruel and degrading interrogation methods are off limits for all U.S. personnel at h...
EU to investigate allegations of secret CIA prisons Last Updated Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:34:40 EST CBC News The European Commission plans to investigate reports that the CIA is running a secret prison system in Eastern Europe and using it to interrogate key al-Qaeda captives. EU officials say they will informally question the European Union's 25 member nations. "We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this, the...
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