#detainees

Israel must free all Palestinians held without charges under so called "administrative detention" orders or give them ...

The success of Kofi Annan`s six-point peace plan depends on "the end of terrorism," Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...

Peace envoy Kofi Annan expressed "grave concern" to Syria`s President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday and Western nations ...

Amnesty International criticized the United States on Wednesday for its use of lethal force, particularly for the ...

Sri Lanka is setting up new courts to accelerate cases against hundreds of Tamil rebel suspects three years after the ...

The granting of a five-year clemency for an Australian drug convict Chapelle Leigh Corby is something of an oddity, ...

Sri Lankan authorities released information for the first time on Sunday about thousands of people held under ...

Saudi Arabia has decided to recall its ambassador to Cairo and close its diplomatic missions in Egypt after protests ...

The Pentagon said Thursday it had sent two members of China`s Uighur minority who were detained without charge for ...

The Law and Human Rights Ministry granted remissions to a total of 333 prisoners on the occasion of Seclusion Day on ...

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International urged China Wednesday not to repatriate North Korean refugees, joining ...

Syria is ready to let Arab monitors extend their mission beyond this week, an Arab League source said, but U.S. ...

Police have denied allegations that two teenagers - Faisal Akbar (14) and Budri M Zain (18.

Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said the handling of Indonesian teenage detainees in Australian prisons had now ...

Two British men arrested in Afghanistan with 30 AK-47 assault rifles have been charged with weapons smuggling, a ...