A military watchdog has adjourned public hearings into the alleged torture of Afghan prisoners for a week while lawyers battle over the scope of its investigation. The chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission, Peter Tinsley, stopped the hearings into complaints filed by two human-rights groups hours after they began Wednesday.
The probe is looking into what military police in Kandahar knew – or should have known – about the possible abuse of prisoners Canadian soldiers handed over to Afghanistan's notorious intelligence service for interrogation.



Human beings are, relatively speaking, absent from the scene of perpetrating genocide in its "modern" form,...
Two United Nations experts have called on Israel to immediately release Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya...
The conviction of two leaders of the Palestine solidarity movement, Chris Nineham, the vice-chair of the...
An Israeli soldier has shared a photo online in which he appears to use a blindfolded...





























