• UK: Accountability Still Needed on Libya Case
    Dec 14, 2012
    The UK government’s compensation to a Libyan dissident over its complicity in his torture and rendition provides some relief but does not absolve it of the duty to investigate.
  • US: Release Report that Addresses CIA Torture
    Dec 13, 2012
    The US Senate intelligence committee’s long-awaited review of the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret detention and interrogation program after September 11, 2001 should promptly be declassified and released.
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  • UK: Accountability Still Needed on Libya Case
    Dec 14, 2012
    The UK government’s compensation to a Libyan dissident over its complicity in his torture and rendition provides some relief but does not absolve it of the duty to investigate.
  • US: Release Report that Addresses CIA Torture
    Dec 13, 2012
    The US Senate intelligence committee’s long-awaited review of the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret detention and interrogation program after September 11, 2001 should promptly be declassified and released.
  • Getting Away with Murder
    Oct 18, 2012
    On his second full day in office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order banning the use of torture and closing the CIA “black sites” that were the locus of so much abuse. Standing behind him as he signed the order were retired admirals and generals, highly decorated officers who had dedicated their lives to keeping the United States safe.
  • US: Torture and Rendition to Gaddafi’s Libya
    Sep 5, 2012

    The United States government during the Bush administration tortured opponents of Muammar Gaddafi, then transferred them to mistreatment in Libya, according to accounts by former detainees and recently uncovered CIA and UK Secret Service documents, Human Rights Watch said in its 154-page report, “Delivered into Enemy Hands: US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi’s Libya.”

  • Diplomatic Assurances: Empty Promises Enabling Torture
    Oct 6, 2011
    Obama has corrected course from the worst of the Bush-era detainee abuses but the US should implement public procedural safeguards to ensure detainees are not transferred to countries where they face a risk of torture.
  • Secret Intelligence Documents Discovered in Libya
    Sep 9, 2011
    Human Rights Watch discovered in Tripoli tens of thousands of archived documents containing evidence of crimes – such as the US and UK governments’ complicity in torture – committed during Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s rule.
  • US/UK: Documents Reveal Libya Rendition Details
    Sep 8, 2011
    Documents recently discovered by Human Rights Watch in Tripoli reveal new details of the high level of cooperation among United States, United Kingdom and Libyan intelligence agencies in the transfer of terrorism suspects.
  • US: Stop Returns of Guantanamo Detainees Fearing Mistreatment
    Jan 6, 2011
    The US government should not forcibly return detainees to places where they fear ill-treatment without providing them a fair legal process to contest their repatriation. The Obama administration on January 6, 2011, transferred detainee Saeed Farhi bin Mohammed to his native Algeria despite his expressed fears of abuse in his homeland – the second forcible US return to that country in six months.
  • Transfers to Afghan Custody Violate Canada's International Legal Obligations
    May 5, 2010
    The path for Canada is clear: because of compelling evidence that persons transferred to Afghan custody face a real risk of torture, Canada should immediately cease transferring detainees to Afghan custody.
  • Universal Periodic Review: United States
    Mar 31, 2010
    This submission highlights ten concerns regarding the United States’ compliance with its international human rights obligations, namely: racial discrimination in anti-drug laws, failure to house domestic violence victims, discriminatory and dangerous treatment of child farmworkers, unfair immigration detention policies, children sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, failure to test rape evidence, solitary confinement of mentally ill prisoners, inadequate healthcare for detained immigrant women, arbitrary detention and unfair trials of terrorism suspects, and return of persons to torture.
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