• UN human rights investigators leaving for Gaza next week

  Geneva – UN investigators will travel to the Gaza Strip and Israel next week to investigate possible human rights abuses...

   

• Killing Civilians: Questions to Ask in the Dead of Night‏

  Almost like clockwork, the reports float up to us from thousands of miles away, as if from another universe. Every couple...

   

• Abuse Isn’t Torture If a Doctor Is There

  The Sick Logic of the CIA Memos. By Sheri Fink | Perhaps the most chilling aspect is that medical professionals apparently...

   

• Torture Worked to Sell the Iraq War

  Three cheers for Dick Cheney. The former vice president has urged, however rhetorically, that the Obama administration release...

   

• CIA ‘Ghost Prisoners’ Missing

  By William Fisher | At least three dozen detainees who were held in the CIA’s secret prisons overseas appear to be missing...

   

• Obama, Top Officials Unite Against Torture Probe

  By by Jason Ditz | Top officials from both parties have spoken out against the notion of an independent probe into the Bush-era...

   

• Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11

  By MARJORIE COHN  | When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution,...

   

• Blackwater Lingers in Iraq

  By Jason Ditz | Though three months ago the Iraqi government formally declared Blackwater Worldwide persona non grata in...

   

• Torture orders ‘came from the top’

  TOP US officials, not a “few bad apples” of low rank, were behind harsh military interrogation tactics that spread...

   

• IDF: No War Crimes Committed in Gaza

  The Israel Defense Forces announced on Wednesday that an internal investigation has determined that no civilians were purposefully...

   

• US-Trained Human Rights Abusers

  President Barack Obama has reversed a few of the Bush administration’s most egregious policies violating human rights...

   

• Torture case lawyers may face jail for letter

  A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who accused a Bay Area company of flying him to foreign torture chambers for the CIA is...

   

• The Torturers Among Us

  By Matt Welch  | Torture, as the former vice-president’s [recent] words suggest, is a critical issue in the present...

   

• Spanish judge keeps Guantanamo probe alive

  A Spanish judge considering possible criminal action against six former Bush administration officials for torture at the...

   

• Government apologises for torture cover-up

  THE government has apologised to two High Court judges after discovering that an MI5 officer misled them over the case of...

   

• “War Crimes” Memos Questioned

  By Bob Patterson | Before editorial writers across America get all discombobulated about the recently released memos that...

   

• Release The Torture Memos

  Newsweek: “As reported by NEWSWEEK, the White House last month had accepted a recommendation from Attorney General...

   

• Spy agency clarifies torture policy

  OTTAWA The top spy at CSIS says it was “unfortunate” that a senior CSIS official got the agency’s policy...

   

• Prosecuting American War Crimes

  Did Americans commit war crimes by torturing detainees at Guantanamo Bay or at secret prisons scattered around Europe? Barack...

   

• Obama Won’t Speed Up Iraq Pullout

  In yet another instance of lowering the expectations on the campaign promised US pullout from Iraq, President Barack Obama...

   

• New claim of MI5 collusion in torture

  Claims that secret agents working for MI5 and MI6 watched and encouraged the torture of a second British resident held by...

   

• Countries Urged to Follow Irish Lead on Guantanamo

  OneWorld US | European countries should emulate Ireland’s offer to accept Guantanamo detainees who will be released...

   

• UN report says Israel used boy as human shield, Israel denies

  JERUSALEM/GENEVA: Israel on Tuesday slammed as “one-sided” a report by a UN human rights investigator which said...

   

• UN Launches Probe of Secret Detention Sites

  By Lisa Schlein | U.N. human rights investigators are launching a year-long global investigation into secret places of detention....

   

• Blackwater sued in US court over alleged cover-up

  The widow of a 32-year-old Iraqi has filed suit in a federal court against private security firm Xe, formerly Blackwater,...