Paola Totaro, London
Close but not too close: British Foreign Secretary David
Miliband met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier
this week. Photo: AFP
A FLURRY of letters between the British Foreign Office and the US State Department has revealed that Washington did threaten to withdraw intelligence-sharing with Britain if documents related to the alleged torture of
KARACHI: The government should set a clear timeframe before the people of Pakistan for the safe return of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her children from the US custody, Human Right Network demanded Monday.
Addressing a news conference here, HRN President Intikhab Alam Suri said that family of Dr. Aafia is under threat. He said that Dr.
The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at former US president George Bush will face trial next week on the original charge of assaulting a foreign leader.
Muntazer al-Zaidi, 30, who is considered a hero by many Iraqis for his protest, has been in custody since the 14 December incident at Bush’s joint news conference with the
Mr Mohamed, a British resident, claims he was tortured
A US military lawyer is travelling to Britain to urge the Foreign Office to press harder for the release of a UK resident detained at Guantanamo Bay.
Lt Col Yvonne Bradley told the BBC that her client Binyam Mohamed is very ill as a result of
Inside a Baghdad jail
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Joe Byrne
The Obama administration has made the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison facility a high priority. One of Obama’s first executive orders, two days after inauguration, was that Guantanamo be closed within the year. Human rights activists are applauding the order, as well as his promise that all American-led torture will cease. With new
