I grew up without a television and was convinced baseball was something that just happens on the radio. I'll take a ballgame called on the radio over television any day. In the hands of an artist, you can smell the ...Read More
In the government's desperate commitment to cover up British complicity in torture, the drip-drip-drip of evidence seeping out continues. The sixth opinion released by the high court in the case of Binyam Mohamed gives us another insight into the government's ...Read More
TORONTO—Top-ranking Canadian officials ignored evidence that prisoners handed over to Afghanistan's intelligence service a few years ago were tortured, a former Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan said. Intelligence officer Richard Colvin testified before a Parliament committee that captives taken by Canadian troops ...Read More
Former President Bill Clinton said homeless HIV/AIDS patients are in dire need of health care reform in a speech at a benefit Wednesday for the Chicago House & Social Service Agency, a nonprofit providing housing and support for people with ...Read More
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A judge ruled Wednesday in a trial that has shaken Zimbabwe's coalition government that defense lawyers for a top prime minister's aide can raise allegations that the main witness against him was tortured. Judge Chinembiri Bhunu also ...Read More
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners. Marco Antonio ...Read More
After ducking the nation's health care crisis for many years, Congress finally stands on the verge of passing comprehensive health reform. Each of several bills on the table would build on our existing public-private system to bring us much closer ...Read More
A federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Monday that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because Congress has not authorized such suits. The ...Read More
The U.N. Rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, says he will not return to Zimbabwe after he was detained overnight at Harare International Airport and sent back to South Africa.
Manfred Nowak told a news conference in Johannesburg he will ask the ...Read More
The United Nations torture investigator said today he would recommend action against Zimbabwe after he was detained on arrival at Harare airport and deported.
Manfred Nowak, the UN special rapporteur on torture, said he had been invited by the prime minister, ...Read More
HARARE - U.N. human rights expert Manfred Nowak was detained at Harare airport on Wednesday by Zimbabwean security agents, even though he said he had been invited by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. The Austrian academic arrived in Zimbabwe from Johannesburg, a ...Read More
ZANU-PF officials in Zimbabwe's troubled power-sharing government on Wednesday blocked a scheduled visit by a United Nations expert on torture to investigate alleged attacks on members of the former opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Unnamed government authorities barred the entry of ...Read More
Manfred Nowak, the UN special rapporteur on torture, has been prevented from entering Zimbabwe after being stopped at the airport in the capital, Harare.
The Austrian academic had been invited to Zimbabwe by Morgan Tsvangirai, the prime minister, but when he ...Read More
HARARE (Reuters) - United Nations human rights expert Manfred Nowak was detained at Harare airport on Wednesday by Zimbabwean security agents and may be deported to South Africa on Thursday, airport security told Reuters. Zimbabwe earlier barred at the last minute ...Read More
JOHANNESBURG -- At the last minute, Zimbabwe on Wednesday blocked the United Nations' torture investigator from visiting the country where opponents to President Robert Mugabe have been attacked and harassed, but he vowed to go anyway at the invitation of ...Read More
GENEVA (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has barred at the last minute a week-long visit by an independent expert on torture who had been invited to the country by the government, the United Nations said Wednesday. The expert, Austrian academic Manfred Nowak, was ...Read More
Mr Nowak initially said Zimbabwe's invitation to him was a welcome sign
The UN says Zimbabwe has at the last minute withdrawn an invitation to its special investigator on torture.
Manfred Nowak was due to start his week-long visit on Wednesday ...Read More
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe's government has blocked a visit by the United Nations' torture investigator who was to examine alleged attacks on opposition activists by ruling party supporters, the world body said Wednesday. The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human ...Read More
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Zimbabwe's government has blocked a visit by the United Nations' torture investigator who was to examine alleged attacks on opposition activists by ruling party supporters, the world body said Wednesday. The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for ...Read More
A US federal court on Tuesday granted the US administration's request to reconsider a case that claimed a Boeing unit had participated in delivering terror suspects to secret CIA prisons. The move amounted to a major test of the government's national ...Read More
LONDON -- Seven former Guantanamo Bay detainees want Britain's High Court to publicly consider evidence of Britain's alleged complicity in their torture. The men are among 11 people suing the British government over its alleged collusion in their mistreatment overseas. Lawyers say ...Read More
