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Mick Meaney | The family of Ian Tomlinson today dismissed police disciplinary proceedings against PC Simon Harwood as “a whitewash”. Mr. Tomlinson’s Step-son, Paul King, also said: “We still haven’t got an answer after 3 and a half years.” Although Simon ...

One sensed they were out to get him from the start. David Hicks, a misguided, foolish man, who found himself at a paramilitary camp in Afghanistan, had to be punished.

The last decade has witnessed a paradigm shift in the way we address torture, according to the UN special rapporteur Juan Méndez.

Attacks on Nato soldiers triggered action against the Afghan Local Police, yet abuses against civilians have been ignored.

New claims of waterboarding by the CIA have emerged, contradicting claims by the US authorities that only three people were submitted to a practice widely regarded as torture.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accused both the Syrian government and the opposition Tuesday of large-scale human rights violations, including torturing and reportedly executing prisoners and failing to protect civilians fleeing the war-ravaged country in record numbers.

A Freedom of Information request has revealed the community payback team carried out more than 23,000 hours of work for the council in 2011 –while the council shelled out £40,000 to sponsor their probation officers.

The UK Embassy in Russia has neither confirmed nor refuted media reports that entrance restrictions have been adopted based on the “Magnitsky list,” while noting that the government as a rule denies entrance to individuals who are known to have ...

The Ethiopian military has been accused of conducting a campaign of arbitrary arrest, rape and torture against scores of villagers in the Gambella region of the country according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The UK Commission on a Bill of Rights seeks to unravel the disputes about national autonomy that have arisen from Britain’s relationship with the European Human Rights Convention. Regardless of their findings, this inquiry should not be used as evidence ...