The recently appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights met
representatives of NGOs at a meeting
hosted by Amnesty International in London on Tuesday.
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.
Chile's Supreme Court jailed five retired military officials on
Wednesday for involvement in the "Caravan of Death" – one of the cases
for which Augusto Pinochet was placed under house arrest ten years ago.
Brother and sister Jimmy and Myriam Bell, who were schoolchildren in
Santiago, Chile, during the 1973 coup, discuss their experiences under the
Pinochet regime.
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.
Amnesty International called on the Pakistan government to reveal the
fate and whereabouts of hundreds of disappeared people, amid
international protests to mark the 25th International Day of the
Disappeared on Saturday 30 August.
Amnesty International calls on the government of the UK to give
the lawyers for Binyam Mohamed, a former UK resident imprisoned at
Guantánamo Bay, information which might help him to
show that he has been a victim of torture and other ill-treatment in
the US-led programme of renditions and secret detention
The family of an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died after being tortured
over a period of 36 hours while detained by UK troops in Basra, Iraq,
will be paid compensation by the UK Ministry of Defence.
