" SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- The outbreak of war seemed like a joke to Jasmina, then just 19 years old. She dreamed of being an economist and says she played with her toddler son and baby daughter as if they were toys. Jasmina says she was raped...
July 18, 2008, Lima, Peru: The remains of nine students and a professor who were murdered in 1992 at La Cantuta University were reunited with their families in Lima this week, bringing a symbolic conclusion to one...
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• GOVERNMENT AGENCIES CONFIRM SUCH WEAPONS EXIST, BECOMING STANDARD ISSUE IN WARFARE AND POLICE WORK• ALLEGED VICTIMS TO CONGRESS: PROBE 'DEW' ABUSE• NEW IN 'COMMENTS': "THIS IS TORTURE -- PLEASE HELP!"...
This leaked photo shows a Guantánamo Bay detainee with his face wired and his lips sewn shut. According to digital camera metadata the image was taken on the 9th February 2003. There is a superficial resemblance to...
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Ex US Attorney General John Ashcroft tells Congress that water boarding as others interrogation techniques used by CIA on Al-Qaida suspects are not tourture. But if not, what are they then? " Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft testified...
Leave it to John Ashcroft to call waterboarding an "enhanced" interrogation technique that, although "serious", should not be defined as "torture". There are many who disagree."The controversial interrogation...
Opinion" [LINK to video of "tortured" Canadian boy who fought for al Qaeda, watch this first and then read.] Truthfully, I have been questioned much harder by school administrators than this kid, who quite possibly killed an American soldier, was. [Side note: the school...
Some British citizens have claimed that MI5 officials hired torture services from Pakistani Intelligence agencies. Such horrendous practise is under investigation. " MI5 officers 'outsourced the torture of British nationals to Pakistani agencies' By Lucy Cockcroft Last...
Tortured iraquies managed to get £3m in compensation from the British Minister of Defense. Last March, MOD accepted its troops had tortured iraquies in Basra in 2003. " Iraqis to get £3m in MoD damages ...
"In a secret report last year, the Red Cross found evidence of the CIA using torture on prisoners that would make the Bush administration guilty of war crimes, The New York Times reported Friday. The Red Cross determined the culpability of the Bush administration after...
source: BBC News World!(BBC article follows UP Article)Niger army admits civilian deathsBy, Uwe Paschen.Niger has admitted that the army killed seven Tuareg civilians at the weekend.The Government finally does admit...
" Liu [Qi] was promoted in 2002 to Beijing Communist Party secretary and given a seat on the country’s 25-member Politburo, China’s top decision-making body. Last May, Liu made Time magazine’s “Time 100,” a list of "100 men and women whose power, talent or moral...
Should the cases be heard in the courts it could expose even more details of the abuses at Abu Ghraib. The plaintiff's lawyers keep the door open for more CACI workers being sued and more former prisoners adding to...
The US singer David Gray has spoken out about the use of his songs played at extremely loud volumes as a form of torture, and has said it is no laughing matter.""Only the novelty aspect of this story gets it...
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According to a recent report by New Delhi based NGO, ACHR, India has a shameful record of torture activities. According to local Indian newspapers, death in custody in rather alarming. This is a most...