Human Rights Watch has issued its annual report. It calls for prosecution of U.S. officials over the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse and of the Sudanese Government for Darfur, and asks Bush to appoint a special prosecutor:

"The vitality of global human rights depends on a firm response to each -- on stopping the Sudanese government's slaughter in Darfur and on fully investigating and prosecuting all those responsible for torture and mistreatment in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo," it said.

Seven members of a U.S. military unit posted at Abu Ghraib have been charged with crimes since pictures of piles of naked men and others held on a leash were leaked last year. In addition the U.S. military has charged or imposed administrative punishments on dozens of servicemen accused of abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.