To get their searing point across, a new educational and fundraising campaign by the UK-basedFreedom From Torture, which gives medical care to survivors of torture, features help-wanted“ads” in mainstream papers. “The government of a Middle Eastern state is recruiting a senior torturer to work in a well-equipped prison. Our ideal candidate would be prepared to inflict extreme pain [...]
Torture on Trial Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture by: David Swanson Published in the May / June 2012 Humanist http://thehumanist.org/may-june-2012/torture-on-trial-legal-and-humane-frameworks-for-opposing-torture/ Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was beaten and raped. A boy was hooded with three empty sand [...]
Here in Australia our slavish and sycophantic adoration of US world policies mean in the long run that we just as much as those in the US government who were responsible, believe just as passionately in torture as they do. It is a vicious circle that must be broken. The [...]
Former CIA Operative Glenn Carle. (Photo:Lance Page / Truthout) Sunday 23 October 2011 by: Jason Leopold, Truthout | Video Interview and Report Rob Richer, the No. 2 ranking official in the CIA’s clandestine service, paid a visit to Glenn Carle‘s office in December 2002 and presented the veteran CIA operative with an urgent proposal. “I [...]
London is often seen as a safe haven from repression and violence [Reuters] Many citizens first settled in the UK as asylum seekers, refugees and economic migrants to escape corrupt policing practices in their countries of origin, where torture and human rights abuses are endemic. Victims of police torture arrived in the UK from numerous [...]
George Bush © 2004 AP Images Donald Rumsfeld © 2004 AP Images Dick Cheney © 2006 AP Images George Tenet © 2004 Reuters Related Materials: Getting Away with Torture More Coverage: Guardian UK: George W Bush should be prosecuted over torture, says human rights group Democracy Now: Ken Roth Discusses Why Bush Should Be [...]
Murder and torture ‘carried out by both sides’ of uprising against Libyan regime Libyan rebels gather on armoured vehicles outside Sirte, one of the last strongholds of the fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi. Photograph: Ciro Fusco/ANSA Amnesty International report is filled with horrific abuses and killings by pro-Gaddafi forces as well as opposition fighters Rebels [...]
The document referred to can be seen and read at http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/interactive/2011/aug/04/mi6-torture-interrogation-policy-document A number of men said they were questioned by MI5 and MI6 officers after being tortured at Guantánamo Bay. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images A top-secret document revealing how MI6 and MI5 officers were allowed to extract information from prisoners being illegally tortured overseas [...]
India: New Killings, Torture at Bangladeshi Border Revised Instructions from Delhi Not Stamping Out Abuses JULY 24, 2011 Floodlit sections of the Indian fence in West Bengal, on the border with Bangladesh. © 2010 Prashant Panjiar RELATED MATERIALS: “Trigger Happy” Despite orders from New Delhi to end killings and abuse and to exercise restraint in [...]
The four Kenyans who were given the go-ahead at the high court to sue the British government over alleged colonial atrocities committed during the Mau Mau uprising. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Four Kenyans who claimed they were tortured at the hands of colonial officials during the Mau Mau insurgency in the 1950s have won the right [...]
Years Later: Human Rights Watch Announces That Bush and Cheney Tortured — What Gives? By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58454 Statutes of limitations for torture not resulting in death have passed. The DOJ has refused to prosecute 99 of 101 cases of torture-to-death that it looked at. Obama has long since publicly told the DOJ not to [...]
As commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, David Petraeus made his opposition to torture crystal clear. Which is why it came as a surprise when Petraeus, nominated to lead the CIA, asked Congress on Thursday to clarify how far interrogators can go in inflicting pain on detainees in “special cases.” Petraeus referred to what’s known [...]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Welcome to Post-Legal America Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:05pm, May 30, 2011. [Note to TomDispatch Readers: A small reminder: the popular TD offer of a signed, personalized copy of Adam Hochschild’s now-bestselling new book, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, in return for a $100 contribution to this website will end [...]
THE NEW YORKER ONLINE ONLY NEWS DESK Notes on Washington and the world by the staff of The New Yorker. « The Sounds of 9/11 Main What a Week: Mostly Osama, and Some Other Stuff » MAY 5, 2011 PRAGMATIC TORTURE Posted by David K. Shipler Advocates of torture who enjoy tormenting the rest of us with [...]
Do we have to have another big national debate about torture? Really, do we have to? Headlines like this one, in the New York Times no less, inform us that the Osama Bin Laden raid has “revived” the arguments over the “value of torture.” That’s strange, because until now, the only people “reviving” the debate over the [...]
Study: Gitmo Doctors Ignored Signs of Torture Officials Shrugged Off Data Suggesting Beatings by Jason Ditz, April 26, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A newly released study details a number of cases in which government doctors at Guantanamo Bay ignored strong evidence of torture and other signs of detainee [...]
