Members of Syria’s armed opposition have subjected detainees to torture and committed summary executions, an international human rights group has said.

The United Nations has a secret list of top Syrian officials who could face investigation for crimes against humanity carried out by security forces in their crackdown against an anti-government uprising, a panel of UN human rights experts said.

THE UN has accused Syria of a series of crimes against humanity in its crackdown on anti-government protests.

The UN has accused Syria of a series of crimes against humanity in its crackdown on anti-government protests.

A United Nations investigator said today his five-day mission to Burma had enabled him to determine the number of people killed and detained in the government’s brutal crackdown on protesters.

Burma’s military junta detained two prominent anti-government activists, one of them a Buddhist monk, dissidents said, even as the government hosted a United Nations human rights investigator and insisted that all arrests had stopped.

A UN human rights envoy who has returned to Burma after a four-year ban spoke to officials today about plans to visit prisons.

A UN human rights envoy is due to arrive in Burma today on a mission to find out how many people were killed and detained during the regime’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

An emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council is being called to discuss the Burma crisis.

Burma’s military junta released at least 19 political prisoners, including pro-democracy party members, as part of a group of nearly 4,000 inmates it said were wrongly charged by an intelligence agency.

Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and three of her top supporters completed six months in detention today with no sign of when they might be freed, despite international calls for their release.

Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not accept freedom until all those arrested with her five months ago are released, a UN envoy has said.

Burma’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not accept freedom until all those arrested with her five months ago are released, a United Nations human rights envoy said today.

A UN human rights envoy will visit Burma this week to push for independent investigations into alleged human rights violations against ethnic minorities in the country, the world body said.