published by Tom Sullivan on Sun, 2012-11-11 10:35
Two American whistleblowers alleging U.S. forces tortured them in Iraq can't sue former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to a federal appeals court in Chicago that found those along the military command chain enjoy broad immunity from such torture claims.
published by Tom Sullivan on Mon, 2012-10-29 10:00
The German SS officer was fighting to save himself from the gallows for a terrible war crime and might say anything to escape the noose. But Fritz Knöchlein was not lying in 1946 when he claimed that, in captivity in London, he had been tortured by British soldiers to force a confession out of him.
published by Tom Sullivan on Sun, 2012-10-21 10:04
The former CIA analyst who went public with the US government’s torturing of suspected terrorists has suffered a major setback this week in his attempt to avoid imprisonment amid a federal witch-hunt targeting whistleblowers.
published by Tom Sullivan on Sun, 2012-10-21 09:46
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday denounced the human rights record of the US, citing maltreatment of children, breach of privacy, police brutality, secret jails and freedom of expression issues.
published by Tom Sullivan on Thu, 2012-10-11 10:58
In the West, the Ministry of Propaganda continues to talk about the “Syrian revolt.” There is no revolt. What has happened is that the US and Israel have equipped with weapons and sent into Syria Islamists who wish to overthrow the secular Syrian government. Washington knows that if the Syrian government can be destroyed, the country will dissolve into warring factions like Iraq and Libya.
published by Tom Sullivan on Mon, 2012-09-17 22:11
The Guantanamo Bay penal colony is notorious as a venue where the human rights of those captive there are periodically violated.
This is why Canadians have taken a keen interest in the plight of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr who at age 15 was kidnapped at gunpoint from Afghanistan by US troops and spirited off to the notorious torture site.
published by Tom Sullivan on Mon, 2012-09-17 21:50
Tied to a cross face down and whipped with cables for hours on end, a detainee held by Syrian rebel forces endured numerous beatings over a period of 25 days, according to a report released by an international human rights group on Monday.
published by Tom Sullivan on Mon, 2012-09-17 21:36
New evidence supports claims of forced injections and abuse.
published by Tom Sullivan on Thu, 2012-06-28 12:08
The UK government has introduced its new secrecy law in Parliament, which, if enacted, would mean details of the emerging torture scandals would be hidden forever.
published by Tom Sullivan on Sun, 2012-06-24 14:52
A Polish inquiry on whether the CIA had a secret prison in the country where suspects were brutally interrogated could entangle former top Polish officials.
published by Tom Sullivan on Sun, 2012-06-24 14:35
One innocent civilian victim is said to have died after being assaulted aboard an RAF helicopter, while others were hooded, stripped and beaten at a camp set up at a remote phosphate mine deep in the desert.
published by Tom Sullivan on Wed, 2012-05-02 09:55
Lithuania has been criticized by six members of the European Parliament for inadequate investigations into the secret prisons run by the US Central Intelligence Agency in the country’s territory.
published by Tom Sullivan on Thu, 2012-02-09 11:27
Canada's intelligence officers were given the green light to use intelligence gained through aggressive interrogation techniques -- described by some as torture -- in cases that impact upon the safety and security of the Canadian people, according to a breaking story by the Canadian Press Tuesday evening.
According to the news agency, the two-page directive was secretly promulgated to those with a "need to know" in December 2010. The Canadian Press obtained a copy of that directive under Canada's version of the Freedom of Information Act -- Access to Information Act.
published by Tom Sullivan on Sun, 2011-12-04 10:44
The terrifying legislation that allows for Americans to be arrested, detained indefinitely, tortured and interrogated — without charge or trial — passed through the Senate on Thursday with an overwhelming support from 93 percent of lawmakers.
published by Ognir on Thu, 2011-08-25 17:17
China says it supports a Palestinian plan to seek full membership in the United Nations next month.
published by Tom Sullivan on Sat, 2011-07-09 17:57
Sleep-deprived and suffering from a broken leg, 16-year-old Muhammad Halabiyeh endured days of torture at the hands of Israeli soldiers and police officers, who punched him repeatedly in the face and abdomen, shoved needles into his hand and leg and threatened the Palestinian teenager with sexual abuse.
published by andie531 on Wed, 2011-06-22 19:51
Whenever I've complained about my country's torturings, renderings, detentions, etc., there's always been some smug bastard ready to respond that these measures are what guarantee smart-alecky writers like myself our freedom of speech. Well, we had a government so vicious and impenetrably stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell.
published by joeblow on Sun, 2011-06-05 22:51
In March 2003, Dr. Aafia and her three children, Ahmad (boy), six years old and an American citizen, Maryum (girl), four years old and also an American citizen, and Suleman (boy), six months old, kidnapped by unknown authorities in Karachi, Pakistan. On March 31, 2003 it was reported by the Pakistani media that Dr. Aafia had been arrested and turned over to representatives of the United States. In early April, this was confirmed on NBC Nightly News, among other media outlets. There was communication to the mother of Dr. Aafia from purported “agencies” that the family members should be quiet if they want to see Aafia returned alive. By the year 2008, many believed that after five years of being disappeared Dr. Aafia and her three children were most likely dead.
published by Ognir on Tue, 2011-05-31 06:44
Some 30,000 Turks staged a protest against Israel on Istanbul's main street Monday night on the anniversary of the Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
published by andie531 on Tue, 2011-02-15 03:38
George W. Bush was forced to cancel a trip to Switzerland this week over concerns of protests linked to the Bush adminstration's treatment of detainees. Bush was to address a Jewish charity in Switzerland.
Bush spokesman David Sherzer said the former president was informed Friday by the United Israel Appeal that his Feb. 12 dinner speech in Geneva had been called off. Saturday's edition of the Tribune de Geneve quoted the Jewish charity's lawyer, Robert Equey, as saying the visit was canceled because of the risk that protests by left-wing groups could result in violence.
published by andie531 on Tue, 2010-12-21 03:26
Walid Muhammad Hajj: The psychologist would come and say: "You want to kill yourself." I never said that I wanted to kill myself. The psychologist would say: "You want to kill yourself, so you must undergo psychiatric treatment." I didn't do anything. I don't want to kill myself. He'd say: "You want to kill yourself, and that's why we have taken your clothes, and we will give you pills."
published by Fester on Sun, 2010-11-07 06:14
The road to World Government over the last one hundred and fifty years has been a bloody one, peppered with assassinations. To name a few: Abraham Lincoln, Alexander II, the Hapsburg Emperor, the Romanov family, President Kennedy, and not counting the anonymous millions who have died in wars and revolutions.
Lulled by the illusion of Equality, Democracy and Freedom, the rest of humanity is being herded into a bondage more dangerous than any that existed before.
Does anyone really believe that men of the calibre of Bush and Blair wield the real power?
The perpetrators of this plot (call it plot, conspiracy or what you will) lurk in the background, their strength, a fixation of purpose, not of ten years, or fifty, but of generations of intent, with money its driving power.
published by joeblow on Thu, 2010-08-26 19:08
A media report says that an Afghan soldier killed two US-led soldiers in a shoot-out when they tried to remove an Afghan woman's veil by force.
Informed sources told the Pashtun language Benava website on Thursday that the deadly incident took place after soldiers were disrespectful to the women and insulted Afghans' cultural and Islamic values.
US-led troops reportedly opened fire at demonstrators, killing dozens of people and wounding more than 20 other civilians.
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