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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 in Israel’s recent offensive, a spokesman for the council said Friday. The former chief
Read More »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 of days they seem to arrive from Afghan villages that few Americans will
Read More »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 conducted a form of research on the detainees, without their consent. Former CIA
Read More »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 more of the torture memos. “One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing
Read More »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 – and efforts by human rights organizations to track their whereabouts have
Read More »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 policies which led to the repeated torture of detainees, making the
Read More »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, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties about Bush interrogation policies, Congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz) stated that former
Read More »Blackwater Lingers in Iraq
By Jason Ditz | Though three months ago the Iraqi government formally declared Blackwater Worldwide persona non grata in the nation, citing “excessive use of force” in the 2007 massacre of 17 Baghdad civilians,
Read More »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 from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan to Iraq, a new Senate report says. The Senate Armed
Read More »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 harmed by IDF troops during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. The inquiries were performed
Read More »US-Trained Human Rights Abusers
President Barack Obama has reversed a few of the Bush administration’s most egregious policies violating human rights and international law, such as the announced closure of the detention center in Guantánamo. But it remains
Read More »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 at the center of a bizarre new case, in which his lawyers
Read More »The Torturers Among Us
By Matt Welch | Torture, as the former vice-president’s [recent] words suggest, is a critical issue in the present of our politics—and not only because of ongoing investigations by Senate committees, or because of
Read More »Spanish judge keeps Guantanamo probe alive
A Spanish judge considering possible criminal action against six former Bush administration officials for torture at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay defied pressure to drop the case Friday. But Judge Baltasar Garzon, internationally
Read More »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 a British terrorist suspect allegedly tortured while in America’s extraordinary rendition programme. Lawyers
Read More »“War Crimes” Memos Questioned
By Bob Patterson | Before editorial writers across America get all discombobulated about the recently released memos that allegedly prove that the United States used extreme interrogation (should that be spelled “interror-gation”?) methods and
Read More »Release The Torture Memos
Newsweek: “As reported by NEWSWEEK, the White House last month had accepted a recommendation from Attorney General Eric Holder to declassify and publicly release three 2005 memos that graphically describe harsh interrogation techniques approved
Read More »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 on torture wrong. Jim Judd, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, distanced the spy
Read More »Prosecuting American War Crimes
Did Americans commit war crimes by torturing detainees at Guantanamo Bay or at secret prisons scattered around Europe? Barack Obama doesn’t want to know. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was one of many who
Read More »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 touted the military progress in the nation but ruled out increasing the speed of his
Read More »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 the Americans must be investigated by the police, politicians, lawyers and human rights
Read More »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 by the United States but cannot return to their home countries, says an international human rights monitor. “This
Read More »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 its three-week war on the Gaza Strip was possibly a war crime. “Unfortunately this is a further
Read More »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. They note the use of such facilities has increased since the global war on terror
Read More »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, for allegedly trying to hide that her husband was killed by one of its
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