State prosecutors join human rights lawyers in bringing legal action against the former Chilean military leader.
The detainees include two prominent human rights lawyers, as well as judges, teachers, and student leaders.
The sentences given the 17 men have angered human rights lawyers in the Gulf island kingdom.
Human rights lawyers Mohammed al-Roken and Mohammed al-Mansoori are among those on trial.
He was backed by two human rights lawyers: crossbencher Lord Pannick and Labour peer Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws.
Over recent weeks, members of the committee, which included human rights lawyers, had briefed that the military had not been co-operative during the investigation.
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Over recent weeks, members of the committee that compiled the report, which included human rights lawyers, had said that the military had not been co-operative during the investigation.
Turkey's parliament speaker, Cemil Cicek, linked Friday's attack to the arrest last month of nine Turkish human rights lawyers, who prosecutors have accused of links to the DHKP-C.
He has been a Board member of Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) since 1983, serving as Vice Chair since 2006.
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Apart from a small moral victory, human-rights lawyers are not confident that much would be gained.
Human-rights lawyers came to his defense, helping him avoid stiff penalties or jail time in these cases.
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For the human-rights lawyers, however, this would be tantamount to trading impunity for information, something they refuse to contemplate.
The admission was the result of government-sponsored talks between the armed forces' representatives, human-rights lawyers and church leaders, which began in 1999.
But, with good reason, human-rights lawyers doubt that any of these cases will result in a real prosecution, let alone a conviction.
Faced with this barrage of legal threats, Chile's demoralised military leaders have decided to negotiate directly with the human-rights lawyers pursuing them.
The main problem in the talks is that neither the armed forces nor the human-rights lawyers are apparently able, or willing, to deliver what the other side wants.
Human-rights lawyers and magistrates have also been targeted.
We condemn the arrest of human rights activists, lawyers, journalists and others.
Human rights groups and lawyers representing the prisoners say it reflects growing frustration at the US military's failure to decide the detainees' future.
Members of Congress, human rights groups and lawyers for accused terrorists said the tapes may have been key evidence to claims that the U.S. government had illegally authorized torture.
He has been a proud member of Human Rights First since it was founded as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights 27 years ago, and has served as its president for the last 12.
He has been a proud member of Human Rights First since it was founded -- as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights -- 27 years ago, and has served as its president for the last 12.
The UK Human Rights Blog, edited by lawyers, explains the cases in full here.
On Monday, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights group said the police had defied a court order to release Ms Mtetwa.
The organisations said that though some of the detainees are members of al-Islah, others are jurists, law professors at university, lawyers and human rights defenders.
McGee said they took place from October 27 through November 1, while the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) said they occurred between October 30 and November 1.
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Members of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights protested in the streets last week to highlight her disappearance, and the MDC threatened to break off power-sharing talks with the government if she and other abducted MDC supporters were not released.
He investigated legal abuses in the Philippines while with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, then he looked at U.S. police misconduct while at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Clare Algar, executive director of human rights charity Reprieve, said the lawyers' comments "must surely sink once and for all the government's claims that judges will have the final decision on secret courts".
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