United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said on Tuesday planned Guantánamo war crimes trials fell short of international standards and handing down death penalties would be ”just not acceptable”.
The accused al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood in a United States military court on Thursday.
A coalition of human rights groups on Wednesday appealed for world pressure on Sudan to turn over two suspects sought by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur.