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RIGHTS-US: "New" Military Courts Still Lack Basic Safeguards

By William Fisher
NEW YORK - While conservatives complain about Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other terror suspects from Guantanamo coming to New York for trial, many legal experts and human rights groups are being equally outspoken in their criticism of the "new and improved" military commissions designated to try five other detainees.
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RIGHTS-US: Decision on 9/11 Trials Sparks Praise, Anger

By William Fisher
NEW YORK - The U.S. government's decision to bring five high-profile terror suspects to the United States to face trials in a civilian court has drawn reactions ranging from praise to condemnation to confusion.
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Q&A: Inclusive Sex Education Needed in African Schools
Suzanne Hoeksema interviews AKINYI M. OCHOLLA, Chair of Minority Women in Action
UNITED NATIONS - With the exception of South Africa, most African countries criminalise same-sex relationships with imprisonment, while incidents of violence against gay women and men are poorly investigated and rarely taken to court.
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CARIBBEAN: British Jurist Rekindles Debate on Colonial-Era Court
By Peter Richards
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Whether or not his words were meant to rekindle debate on the merits of a Caribbean court, the statement by British jurist Lord Phillips that "in an ideal world" the former Commonwealth countries would stop using the Privy Council and instead set up their own final courts of appeal has done just that.
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US-AFGHANISTAN: "New" Bagram Rules More of the Same?
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Human rights activists and legal experts reacted swiftly Monday to disclosures that the U.S. government is planning to introduce new measures it claims would give inmates at Afghanistan's notorious Bagram prison more opportunities to challenge their detention.
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RIGHTS-US: Some Guantanamo Prisoners Fight Release
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - As 13 prisoners held at the U.S. naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba appeared set to finally win their freedom, others are asking their release to be deferred.
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RIGHTS-US: Rendition Victim Still Seeking Justice
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Thwarted by U.S. courts, a German citizen who claims he was "rendered" by the U.S. and secretly detained and tortured for four months is taking his case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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ST VINCENT: Proposed Constitution Facilitates Death Penalty
By Peter Richards
KINGSTOWN - For human rights groups like Amnesty International and the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Human Rights Association (SVGHRA), Nov. 25 will be more than just another day in the Caribbean.
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RIGHTS-US: Ashcroft Liable for Wrongful Detention
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - In what is being hailed as an unprecedented ruling, a federal appeals court has concluded that the George W. Bush administration's first attorney general, John Ashcroft, can be held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of an innocent U.S. citizen.
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RIGHTS-US: Cleared for Release, But...
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that inmates at Guantanamo Bay have a right to go to federal court to challenge their detention, detainees have filed more than 150 such lawsuits.
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RIGHTS-US: CIA Probe Should Go Farther, Groups Say
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Attorney General Eric Holder's decision Monday to investigate whether interrogators from the Central Intelligence Agency or its contractors violated any federal laws in applying "enhanced interrogation techniques" to detainees in U.S. custody overseas triggered immediate criticism from human rights advocates and appeared to widen the partisan divide between Republicans and Democrats.
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RIGHTS-US: Justice to Probe Detainee Abuses
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - The issue of detainee interrogation and abuse – lately eclipsed by the debate over U.S. health care reform – bubbled back to the surface Monday in a number of headline-making developments.
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RIGHTS-US: ACLU Sues Controversial Sheriff
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - The man who boasts he is "America's Toughest Sheriff" - and who is being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department for civil rights violations - this week added another lawsuit to thousands already pending against him.
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RIGHTS-US: Teenage Terror Plot or Wild Imagination?
By Matthew Cardinale
ATLANTA, Georgia - Following a seven-day trial, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 23, was convicted in a U.S. federal court earlier this month on several counts of providing material support to terrorists and the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LET), a designated foreign terrorist organisation.
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HAITI: Calls Mount to Free Lavalas Activist
By Wadner Pierre and Jeb Sprague
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Government authorities in Haiti face recent criticism over allegations that they continue to jail political dissidents.
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MIGRATION-US: More Deaths in Detention
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - In response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security revealed Tuesday that the government had failed to disclose 11 more deaths in immigration detention facilities.
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RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: One Arrest in Gender-Killing Epidemic
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - "Femicide," or gender-based murder, has reached epidemic proportions in Guatemala. But at least for Rosmery González - one of the more than 700 Guatemalan victims of this crime in 2008 - justice is finally being done with the arrest of her alleged killer earlier this month.
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US: Children Call for End to Immigration Raids
By Valeria Fernández
PHOENIX, Arizona - It has been two months since Katherine Figueroa has shared a meal with her parents. Both of them are undocumented workers that were arrested in a workplace raid last June by Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office here.
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IRAN: Allegations of Rape in Detention Centres
Analysis by Sara Farhang
TEHRAN - At continued public protests at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar Wednesday, demonstrators are expressing their discontent with the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while the rifts among the ruling elites of the Islamic government widen.
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RIGHTS-SAUDI ARABIA: Indefinite Detention in the Name of Counterterrorism
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - Human rights groups have accused Saudi Arabia of unlawfully detaining thousands of people without trial or conviction under its counterterrorism programme since 2003.
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