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Author of Torture Memos Admits Some Techniques Were Not Approved by DOJ
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Jay Bybee, the former head of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) who signed two infamous August 2002 legal memos which authorized CIA interrogators to torture... ...
rudkla - 22. Jul, 07:31
5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced
By Fred Branfman Is the suffering our leaders inflict on innocent civilians relevant to deciding whether to support our present war-making in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Would it matter if the N.Y. Times... ...
rudkla - 30. Jun, 09:56
Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantanamo?
Andy Worthington, Truthout: "The recently released Final Report of President Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force was supposed to provide a cogent and definitive analysis of the status of the remaining... ...
rudkla - 11. Aug, 05:52
New Report Reveals How Bush Torture Program Involved Human Experimentation
In a 27-page report, "Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the 'Enhanced' Interrogation Program" (available here), the organization Physicians for Human Rights... ...
rudkla - 22. Jun, 09:28
Torture: British MPs call for inquiry into MI5 role
New allegations that abuse of Britons was outsourced to Pakistani agencies. http://www.guard ian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/1 5/humanrights.civilliberti es These documents detail for the first time the experiences... ...
rudkla - 15. Jul, 22:47
Pentagon admits Afghan jail abuses
US military interrogators assaulted Afghan detainees using techniques they learned during self-defence training, according to documents released by the Pentagon. http://tinyurl. com/65el5d From Information... ...
rudkla - 18. Apr, 08:01
Canada: Watchdog to hold public hearings on Afghan detainee transfers
For more than a year, the Military Police Complaints Commission investigated a complaint that transfers of Afghan detainees to Afghan security forces are in violation of international law. http://www.cbc.ca/ca nada/story/2008/03/12/afgh an-detainees.html From.. . ...
rudkla - 13. Mar, 10:15
Opposition grills Harper over Afghan detainee issue
Opposition MPs accused the Harper government of misleading Canadians and the House on the Afghan detainee issue as Parliament resumed Monday. http://www.cbc.ca /canada/story/2008/01/28/c anada-questionperiod.html From... ...
rudkla - 29. Jan, 09:21
Documents reveal evidence of Afghan prisoner abuse
Rights groups in court to seek halt to transfer of Canadian detainees. http://www.the star.com/article/296208 From Information Clearing House ...
rudkla - 23. Jan, 10:49
From Canadian custody into cruel hands
Savage beatings, electrocution, whipping and extreme cold: Detainees detail a litany of abuses by Afghan authorities. http://snipu rl.com/1hqu6 "Handcuffe d and blind-folded, I was told to keep my mouth... ...
rudkla - 24. Apr, 10:54
