The US Congress should reject provisions in a defense spending bill that would permit long-term indefinite detention without trial of terrorism suspects.

(New York) – The US Congress should reject provisions in a defense spending bill that would permit long-term indefinite detention without trial of terrorism suspects, Human Rights Watch said today.

The Canadian government should investigate possible criminal charges against former US President George W. Bush for his role in authorizing the torture of detainees. Bush is scheduled to visit to Surrey, British Columbia on October 20, 2011.

(Toronto) – The Canadian government should investigate possible criminal charges against former US President George W.

The US Senate should remove dangerous and counterproductive provisions in the defense spending bill that would militarize law enforcement in US terrorism cases and authorize long-term indefinite detention without charge.

A Libyan-Canadian citizen who was imprisoned for eight years by the Muammar Gaddafi government says that agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) were among foreign agents who interrogated him while he was in Libyan custody for suspected terrorist ties.

The Canadian government should be prepared to bring criminal charges against former US Vice President Dick Cheney for his alleged role in the torture of detainees when he visits Vancouver on September 26, 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.

The findings on September 8, 2011, of the inquiry into the death of an Iraqi detained by British soldiers in 2003 provide an opportunity for the United Kingdom government to reform its military detention and justice systems. The UK should ensure that all those responsible are held accountable and that such abuse does not take place again.

(New York) – A decade’s perspective highlights the enormous damage that the attacks of September 11, 2001 did to the human rights cause. There was, first of all, the irreparable damage of lives lost that day – some 3,000 people from many nations. Terrorism – the deliberate targeting of civilians for political ends – is an affront to the human rights movement.read more

The Australian prosecutor’s office should drop the asset-seizing case against former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks for money he earned from a book he wrote about his six years in US custody at Guantanamo Bay.

Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned by the human rights implications of the draft Law of Sanctions for Crimes of Terrorism and Its Financing of 2011 (the “draft counterterrorism law”).