Geneva: The UN human rights chief called on the United States on Friday to close down the Guantanamo prison camp, saying the indefinite imprisonment of many detainees without charge or trial violated international law.
Navi Pillay said the hunger strike being staged by some inmates at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in southeastern Cuba was a "desperate act" but "scarcely surprising".
"We must be clear about this: the United States is in clear breach not just of its own commitments but also of international laws and standards that it is obliged to uphold," the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement.
US President Barack Obama pledged four years ago to close the controversial facility, opened by the Bush administration in January 2002 to hold men captured in counter-terrorism operations after the deadly September 11 attacks on America....
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06:57 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Lucknow/New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is expected to file its closure report in the YS Sachan death case in the Allahabad High Court on Friday. Sources say that the CBI has called it a case of suicide based on the forensic report. Sachan, the former deputy Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow, was found dead in a jail toilet last year. He was accused of involvement in the...
11:36 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Nanterre: A French court is deciding whether to block further publication of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, whose lawyer say Prince William and Kate were sharing a private moment that was captured by an intrusive photographer. The court in Nanterre, outside Paris, said there would be a ruling at noon on the request to stop Closer from publishing the images any further, including on its website and tablet...
02:19 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Udhagamandalam: Protesting the closure of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR), following a Supreme Court order, shops remained shut and tourist jeeps were off the road in Masinagudi, Mavanallah and Vazhaithottam near Mudumalai on Friday. Traders and drivers while appealing to the forest department to take steps to reopen the tiger reserve, said that their livelihood depended on the flow of tourists. The forest officials had asked the drivers not to transport...
12:42 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Coimbatore/Nilgiris: Acting swiftly on the Supreme Courts order, forest authorities in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday shut down the three tiger reserves in Anamalai (ATR), Mudumalai (MTR) and Kalakkad Mundanthurai (KMTR) for tourists. The Apex Court had on Tuesday banned tourism in core areas of tiger reserves in the country. Holidayers who had visited the tiger reserves were caught unawares when they were asked to leave. Private resorts were in a...
01:20 PM, Jul 26, 2012
Bangalore: With many city schools unsure about whether they would remain shut till Sunday night, scenes of confusion and chaos were witnessed outside school premises in prominent areas on Monday. The traffic police were seen trying to ease out the traffic jams on Monday morning. Since many school autos and vans had not turned up, parents were seen dropping off their children. The confusion began when the main gates of...
03:23 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: Anand Prakash, the father of Aradhana Gupta, who was a friend of Ruchika Girhotra, has said that he will approach the Punjab and Haryana High Court challenging the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI's) closure report in the molestation-suicide case. The CBI's closure report pertained to Ruchika's brother, Ashu Girhotra's torture and destruction of evidence in the case. Anand Prakash added that Ruchika's father SC Girhotra had accepted the...
04:02 PM, Jun 05, 2012
BANGALORE: After Palikes notices to traders at Russell Market did not bear fruits, the civic body has resorted to new methods to evacuate traders from the market. The BBMP has now denied water supply to the market and has locked the toilets on the premises. Recently, the traders had pooled in funds and had arranged for generator facility, which, however, is not serving the purpose. Around 120 mutton, 40 fish...
08:58 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: A metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Monday handed over the final copy of the SIT report on the Gulbarg massacre to Zakia Jafri, a month after the Supreme Court-appointed SIT gave Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a clean chit in the case. The report had sought a closure in the probe as it found no evidence against Narendra Modi. Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri...
10:19 AM, May 10, 2012
BANGALORE: As per a recommendation, at least 40 per cent of BEd colleges under Bangalore University (BU) have to be closed due to inadequate independent buildings, classrooms, libraries and computer centres. The recommendation is based on a survey conducted between December 2011 and February 2012 by Karan Kumar H, a member of the varsitys Academic Council.Apart from infrastructure flaws, the survey recorded gross non-adherence to rules concerning the way academic...
09:25 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Nagpur: A Nagpur court on Wednesday rejected the CID closure report in Yogita Thakre case and directed the agency to carry out further investigation into the death mystry of the 7-year-old girl. Her family alleges that she was murdered and did not die accidentally as the CID probe concluded, and Wednesday's verdict gave them a new hope. On May 19, 2009, Yogita was found dead in the boot of a...
02:02 PM, Dec 21, 2011
HYDERABAD: As many as 439 MCA and MBA colleges in the state are on the verge of closure. They have sought permission from the government to transfer the few students who took admission to nearby colleges as most of their seats remained unfilled, after the second phase of counselling which ended on October 27. At the end of the second phase, 439 colleges (362 MCA and 77 MBA) got below...
08:54 AM, Nov 03, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi Police is understood to have concluded that the controversial CD purportedly having lawyer Shanti Bhushan's conversations with political leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh is genuine and not fake as alleged. Sources said investigators are filing a closure report soon following probe into a complaint filed by Bhushan that the CD was fabricated. A case under section 469 of Indian Penal Code (forgery for the purpose...
01:01 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Former Chief Justic of India KG Balakrishnan does a U-turn on disclosing his assets. Justic Balakrishnan has informed the Inecome Tax Department that he does not want to disclose his assets because it is not related to public welfare in any way. Under intense pressure, former CJI and the current NHRC chief had early this month agreed to publicise details of his assets. The ex-CJI has faced allegations that...
01:41 PM, Apr 18, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday reserved its order for February 21 on the CBI's plea seeking withdrawal of case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the over two-decade-old Bofors payoff scam. "This court has heard the argument. There is no point in holding back the order for the information of the Central Information Commission (CIC). Put the matter for pronouncement of order on February 21," Chief Metropolitan Magistrate...
03:46 PM, Feb 10, 2011
Ghaziabad: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad will pronounce its order on the CBI closure report in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case on Wednesday. The court can accept the closure report, reject it and order a re-investigation or take cognizance and order a trail in the case. The CBI's closure report which was filed in December mentions Aarushi's father Dr Rajesh Talwar as the sole suspect saying that all circumstantial...
07:14 AM, Feb 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Special CBI court on Tuesday reserved its decision on CBI closure report in Aarushi-Hemraj murder case for Wednesday. The CBI stood by its closure report in the court stating that it done a fair investigation and submitted to the court whatever evidence it found. The agency maintained that the servants were not involved and there was nobody else in the house apart from the parents. The CBI...
02:15 PM, Feb 08, 2011
New Delhi: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad will hear a petition on Tuesday filed by Aarushi Talwar's parents against the CBI's closure report in the double murder case. The CBI is expected to stand by its closure report in the case and is likely to challenge the petition filed by Aarushi's father Rajesh Talwar, official sources said. They, however, said the Court can take cognisance of the closure report...
07:43 AM, Feb 08, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Attorney General on a petition seeking complete disclosure of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia's telephonic conversations with various public figures. A bench comprising justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly asked the Attorney General G E Vahanvati to file his response within two weeks and posted the matter for hearing on March 8. The tapes reportedly include her...
06:53 PM, Feb 02, 2011
Ghaziabad: There’s some reprieve for the Talwar family as a special CBI court has said that Rajesh Talwar cannot be called an accused till a charge sheet is filed in the case The request made by the CBI counsel that Talwars shouldn’t be given a copy of the closure report has been turned down by the court. The court refused to buy CBI’s argument that Rajesh Talwar is an accused...
09:20 PM, Jan 07, 2011
