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UN report voices concern at Moscow's failure to investigate widespread allegations of torture.
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Last Modified: 24 Nov 2012 03:52 GMT
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Arab finance ministers approve a draft plan for sanctions against Syria in an attempt to end the country's violence.
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Finance ministers are meeting in Cairo after Syria fails to sign a protocol allowing rights monitors into the country.
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Syria is set to face sanctions over its failure to sign a protocol allowing rights monitors into the country.
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The United States should close its Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba and its secret prisons across the world, the UN says.
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Last Modified: 19 May 2006 22:18 GMT
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There is still widespread torture of prisoners held by the US in its war on terrorism, despite outcry over Abu Ghraib and other scandals, Amnesty International has said.
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Last Modified: 03 May 2006 21:03 GMT
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Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay
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Last Modified: 24 Jun 2005 21:48 GMT
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