WASHINGTON — The question Democratic senators put to Condoleezza Rice last week seemed easy enough to answer: Did the secretary of State nominee consider interrogation practices such as ...

Has newly minted Attorney General Alberto Gonzales studied the opinion handed down by the Supreme Court last November in Leocal v. Ashcroft? There, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist issued a ringing ...

When the first 20 detainees stepped through the gates of Guantanamo Bay Detention Center on January 11, 2002, they did not fully understand the meaning and complexity of their incarcerations. January ...

Onen: EU is Narrowing the Torture Definition Representatives of the EU Commission say that the Human Rights Foundation has a very wide definition of torture. The Foundations head Onen says that there ...

The Justice Department published a revised and expansive definition late yesterday of acts that constitute torture under domestic and international law, overtly repudiating one of the most criticized ...

Samantha Newbery receives funding from the British Academy. On December 2, the Irish government announced that it will ask the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to reconsider its 1978 judgement on ...

Roberts, of Pittsylvania County, is retired from the Central Intelligence Agency. With the coming of the new administration of President Obama, the nation has made some adjustments to the language ...