Topic: Manfred Nowak
United Nations special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak also said he had received "consistent" allegations of police beatings, and that at one Athens precinct, police kept a hard line on migrants for fear of far-right militants."The time has come for urgent ...
A UN expert on torture has appealed to Tehran to end the solitary confinement of Sarah Shourd, one of the three US hikers detained without trial for more than a year in Iran, her mother said Friday.Nora Shourd told AFP that ...
Papua New Guinea police systematically beat detainees, cripple those suspected of serious crimes and sexually assault female prisoners, a United Nations report said Tuesday.After spending almost two weeks touring the impoverished Pacific island country, the UN's special rapporteur on torture ...
Prisoners are routinely beaten by police in Papua New Guinea while those who escape risk having tendons cut to disable them, a United Nations expert on torture said Tuesday.Manfred Nowak, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, said in a statement ...
The UN's independent expert on torture on Wednesday criticised the Obama administration for not investigating allegations of torture made when president George W. Bush was in power.There is not enough done to remedy what has been done in the past ...
UN torture investigator concerned about Chinese lawyer missing for over a year A U.N. torture investigator said Wednesday he is very concerned about the fate of missing Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng and believes he has been severely tortured."We don't ...
African mediators were set to meet Friday with President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in a bid to revive Zimbabwe's unity deal, paralysed over the arrest of an aide to the premier.Tsvangirai, the former opposition leader, joined the ...
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe on Friday accused United Nations torture expert Manfred Nowak, who was expelled from the country, of trying to provoke a diplomatic incident by ignoring a request to delay his trip.Nowak said he would recommend that the U.N ...
A UN torture expert was expelled from Zimbabwe on Thursday, before regional officials tried to mediate an end to the latest crisis dividing the government.Manfred Nowak was detained late Wednesday on his arrival in Harare, where he had been set to ...
A UN torture expert expelled from Zimbabwe on Thursday said he feared the country's unity government could fall apart, as regional leaders tried to mediate an end to the latest crisis.Manfred Nowak was detained late Wednesday on his arrival in ...
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United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel treatments or inhuman or degrading penalties, Austrian Manfred Nowak
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Manfred Nowak - Challenges to the Absolute ...
Professor Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, delivered the ...2009-06-04 -
UN-Sonderbeauftragter für Folter Manfred Nowak im...
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