Amnesty International USA

30.03.2007 The Lao military is using the excuse of a long-concluded war to continue attacks on a destitute population of Hmong jungle-dwellers, says a new human rights report.

28.03.2007 Australian David Hicks has been the first Guantanamo detainee to face trial, some five years after his capture. A report released just before Hicks' trial reiterates concerns that the U.S. government-sponsored "military commissions" will not meet international standards of justice.

27.03.2007 A constitutional amendment would give sweeping powers of arrest to Egypt's police, grant broad authority to monitor private communications, and allow the president to bypass ordinary courts and refer terrorism suspects to military and special courts.