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Torture« Previous EntriesJudge says gov’t must produce waterboarding memosThursday, September 4th, 2008A federal judge has ruled in New York that the government must either produce memos on waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods used by the CIA or explain why they should be kept secret. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein says the memos are "clearly responsive" to a lawsuit filed in 2003 by the ACLU and other civil rights groups seeking records on the treatment ... tagged TortureMcCain Suggests Bush Has Endorsed TortureTuesday, September 2nd, 2008By Zachary A. Goldfarb | Sen. John McCain today issued some of his strongest criticism of President Bush over an aggressive interrogation technique, clearly suggesting that the president has endorsed torture. During an assessment of the Bush presidency on "Fox News Sunday," McCain discussed the administration's use over "waterboarding," a technique that has been used to interrogate terrorist detainees. "Waterboarding to me is torture, okay? And waterboarding was advocated by the ... tagged TortureDoctors say ex-Bangladesh PM’s son crippled by tortureSunday, August 24th, 2008The eldest son and heir apparent of two times former Bangladeshi premier Khaleda Zia was partially paralysed when tortured in custody, doctors said Sunday. Tareque Rahman was strung up blindfolded in a dark room, then dropped down and struck against a wall, fracturing two bones in his back, a doctor who treated him quoted from his medical report. Rahman was partially paralysed by the impact of the fall, which has resulted in ... tagged Torture and World-NewsUS Accused of War Crimes Over Torture MethodsWednesday, August 20th, 2008The use of torture by the US Government in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001 has come under increasing criticism. In 1863 at the height of the US civil war, president Abraham Lincoln set the principles for interrogation of prisoners with a famous instruction "military necessity does not admit of cruelty". It took the September 11 attacks to change those principles and Vice-President Dick Cheney ... tagged Torture and USA-NewsIraq wants to put torturers on trialTuesday, August 19th, 2008Iraq's human rights ministry says wants torturers not to be included on amnesty lists. BAGHDAD - Iraq's human rights ministry says it wants to put on trial torturers who benefit from complete immunity despite proven cases of abuse in Iraqi prisons."We call on the government and judicial authorities to ensure the protection of prisoners, to punish torturers and not to include them ... tagged Iraq and TortureWaterboard torture a theme park attractionFriday, August 8th, 2008By Ritsuko Ando in New York | A MAN with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it's not Guantanamo Bay naval base, but New York's Coney Island amusement park. The scene using robotic dolls is an installation built by artist Steve Powers to criticise waterboarding, a simulated drowning technique the US has admitted using on ... tagged TortureNext president should order investigation of Bush-Cheney use of tortureMonday, August 4th, 2008By Rosa Brooks, Los Angeles Times | Even war criminals have fan clubs. On Tuesday, 15,000 people in Belgrade, Serbia, protested the transfer of indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic to the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague. Karadzic is implicated in torture, rape, murder and genocide, but to some self-styled Serbian patriots, these are mere details. ''Long Live Radovan!'' chanted the protesters. For the many Americans who read of Karadzic's arrest ... tagged Torture and USA-NewsBritish Territory Used for US TortureSaturday, August 2nd, 2008By ADAM ZAGORIN | Almost two years have passed since President George W. Bush publicly acknowledged the existence of a CIA program in which agency-leased aircraft fly terrorism suspects between secret prisons and interrogation sites around the world. "This program has helped us to take potential mass murderers off the streets before they have a chance to kill," the President said on Sept. 6, 2006. Since that admission, ... tagged Torture and USA-NewsHuman rights groups say torture widespread in Palestinian jailsMonday, July 28th, 2008Karin Laub And Dalia Nammari, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALEM, West Bank - Majdi Jabour was beaten to the point of passing out by the Fatah-allied interrogators in the West Bank who accused him of ties to rival Hamas. In Gaza, the same fate befell a Fatah supporter who was bloodied in a lockup by club-wielding Hamas security men. Two human rights groups on Monday decried widespread mistreatment and torture in Palestinian jails ... tagged TortureACLU Obtains Key Memos Authorizing CIA Torture MethodsSaturday, July 26th, 2008Memo Instructed CIA To Document Both Torture Techniques And Agents Participating In Interrogations NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today obtained three redacted documents related to the Bush administration's brutal interrogation policies, including a previously withheld Justice Department memo authorizing the CIA's use of torture. The government was ordered to turn over the documents in response to an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought in 2004 ... tagged Torture and World-NewsUS torture claims are unreliable: British lawmakersSaturday, July 19th, 2008The British government should no longer accept US assurances that it does not use torture, a parliamentary oversight committee said on Sunday in a wide-ranging report looking at London's human rights policy. Ministers have previously taken at face value statements from their US counterparts, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President George ... tagged TortureAshcroft defends waterboarding before House panelSaturday, July 19th, 2008The controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding has served a "valuable" purpose and does not constitute torture, former Attorney General John Ashcroft told a House committee Thursday. Testifying on the Bush administration's interrogation rules before the House Judiciary Committee, Ashcroft defended the technique while answering a question from Rep. Howard Coble, R-North Carolina. "Waterboarding, as we all know, is a controversial issue. Do you think it served a beneficial purpose?" the congressman asked. "The ... tagged TortureVideo of Interrogation of Gitmo Teen ReleasedWednesday, July 16th, 2008By IAN AUSTEN | OTTAWA — The video is blurry and the soundtrack muffled, but the technical shortcomings of the video recordings released Tuesday did not obscure the emotions of Omar Khadr as he was interrogated at the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba. Mr. Khadr, just 16 years old at the time of the ... tagged Guantanamo and TortureFailed asylum-seekers are abused by private security companies, says reportMonday, July 14th, 2008By Robert Verkaik and Chris Green | Britain is responsible for the abuse of hundreds of failed asylum-seekers at the hands of private security guards during their forced removal from this country, a report into the treatment of refugees alleges today. The findings, based on nearly 300 cases of alleged physical assault and racial abuse, follows a four-year investigation into concerns about the control and use of private security ... tagged TortureKhadr interrogation raises troubling questionsMonday, July 14th, 2008Canadian officials knew youth was being tortured By Michelle Shephard | The first time Omar Khadr was questioned, he was lying in a military hospital bed in Afghanistan with two gaping holes in his chest – the exit wounds of the bullets that were shot through his back before his capture by U.S. Special Forces. Interrogators at the Bagram U.S. Military Base kept one ... tagged Torture« Previous Entries |
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