The US immigrant-detention population has surged in the past decade,
resulting in a lack of due process that has driven some detainees to
attempt suicide.
The death of a 15-year-old boy in Michigan after he was s hocked with a Taser gun shows the imperative need for further tests on the safety of the electro-shock weapon
More people were executed in Asia than in any other part of the world
in 2008. By contrast, in Europe, only one country continues to use
the death penalty: Belarus.
Amnesty International has called on other European governments to
follow Ireland's lead in offering to accept a small number of
Guantánamo detainees who the U
The destruction of almost 100 tapes containing potential evidence of torture and ill treatment of detainees held in secret detention by the CIA illustrates the urgent
