Five human rights groups urged governments to accept into their countries, those detainees who will not be charged with any crime but who cannot be returned to
their country of origin for fear of torture or other human rights
violations.
Three men convicted of involvement in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings,
which killed 202 people and injured a further 209, are to be executed
in early November.
The UK’s highest court will begin hearing two important test cases
related to human rights and the UK government's counter-terrorism
policies on Thursday.
The House of Lords in the UK is expected to vote on Monday on proposals
that would allow the period of pre-charge detention in terrorism cases
to be extended.
With evidence that the CIA operated a secret detention facility in Poland mounting, Amnesty International has welcomed the news that public prosecutors have initiated an investigation into these long-standing allegations.
As the United Nations General Assembly conducts the first major
review of its Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, an Amnesty
International report shows how governments have so far failed to uphold
the Strategy's human rights standards.
Convicted of “providing material support for terrorism”, the Yemeni national was sentenced to five and a half years in
prison at the first US military commission trial in Guantánamo Bay.
