Torture News
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Washington -
A Senate Committee has approved measures to declassify information related to torture during the previous Bush administration.
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Toronto -
Toronto police have issued a warrant for the arrest of an 18-year-old man after it is alleged four teens who answered an ad on Kijiji for the sale of car were robbed, held against their will, beaten and were victims of extortion.
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Irvine -
During an all night hackathon in Orange County, a group of hackers developed an electrifying way to scare someone with an Oculus Rift.
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The most violent terrorist group fighting in Syria is the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Britons make up most of the foreign fighters currently in its ranks.
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"You can't spell abuse without Abu," said one US Army medic to another, Sgt. Andrew Duffy, after throwing a seriously injured and handcuffed Iraqi prison to the ground, face-first, upon his arrival at Abu Ghraib.
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On Tuesday, Judge Pablo Ruz at the Spanish National Court defied pressure to scrap a probe into alleged torture in the United States prison camp in Guantanamo Bay which targets former U.S. president George W. Bush.
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New York -
France will table a proposal before the United Nations Security Council authorizing the International Criminal Court to investigate crimes against humanity in Syria, French ambassador to the UN Gerard Araud said Tuesday.
In the Media
by AFP
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The United Nation's High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has strongly condemned the use of torture in Syria by both the regime and some armed opposition groups.
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A Senate report concluded that harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding provided no key evidence in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Conservatives and liberals have argued about whether such methods are torture.
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Mechanicsville -
Two teenage girls from Maryland have admitted to torturing and sexually abusing a boy with autism and filming the horrific crimes on their mobile phones.
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Long-awaited welfare changes to affect thousands of refugees, have come into effect this weekend in Hong Kong. But not everyone is satisfied with them.
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A Rwandan refugee who was illegally returned to Rwanda to face trial on rebellion charges has pleaded guilty after being severely beaten in detention, his wife and a rights activist have confirmed.
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An investigation conducted by an independent task force has concluded that the Central Intelligence Agency has been forcing doctors, psychologists and other health care professionals to torture individuals detained during the 'War on Terror.'
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An editorial in Canada's largest newspaper has urged that Canada not provide "safe haven for torturers," on the eve of a visit by former US Vice President Dick Cheney to Toronto.
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Sacramento -
Juan Mendez, the United Nation's lead torture investigator, says that he is worried about increased use of solitary confinement in United States' prisons and wants access to California lockups.
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New Orleans -
A United Nations human rights expert is urging the United States to immediately end the solitary confinement of a Louisiana prisoner held in isolation in a tiny cell for more than 41 years.
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Madrid -
Victims of torture by Franco's officials launched a case against four of the dictator's officers and warrants of arrest have been issued. The Spanish High Court has agreed to summon the former Franco officers wanted in Argentina.
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Buenos Aires -
Victims of torture during the brutal reign of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco are hoping they will finally see justice, as an Argentinian judge has issued arrest warrants for four former Franco officials.
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Manchester -
A researcher at Manchester University has been looking into how Chile's military dictator, Augusto Pinochet, used popular music to "to inflict psychological and physical damage" on prisoners of his regime.
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Kabul -
Western "feminists" are forever whining about "sexism" and the "patriarchy". It remains to be seen if any of them would change places with the women of Afghanistan.
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A US defense contractor whose employees tortured Iraqi detainees in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison is suing four of its victims following a federal judge's dismissal of their torture lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds.
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Crescent City -
The ongoing controversy over prisoners in solitary confinement at California's Pelican Bay State Prison raises questions with no easy answers.
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Mcalester -
Police in an eastern Oklahoma town say a man kidnapped, drugged, raped and brutally tortured his girlfriend over a period of five days.
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While social media is saturated with misguided consternation over the verdict in the Zimmerman trial, a more sinister trial with more important implications is proceeding under an umbrella of media silence.
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Melbourne -
A procedural hearing took place at a court in Melbourne, Australia on Friday at which the court heard allegations of a 21-year-old Dutch woman held captive by a couple for six weeks and raped more than 60 times.
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Sex can easily be bought from sex slaves anywhere in the world, sexual slavery is not something that only happens in the developing world.
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New York -
Jon Stewart, icon of late-night cable TV political satire, dealt with the release of a damning report on US torture as only he could-- with a healthy dose of comic relief.
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A landmark bipartisan study has found "indisputable" evidence that the United States practiced torture in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and that the George W. Bush administration is responsible.
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The Egyptian president has dubbed as "insults" allegations that the armed forces were involved in the murder and torture of protesters throughout the course of the Egyptian Revolution two years ago.
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In 2003 the invasion of Iraq began. Before the war it was argued that Iraq was a danger to its neighbours and the rest of the world; the poor treatment of its people by the Hussein regime was also highlighted as another justification for going to war.
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Torture Image
'Trophy' photograph taken by an Indonesian soldier
after he and his comrades murdered Ninuor Kwalik
and his 12 year old nephew Daugunme in 1998, West
Papua. © Survival
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John Yoo.
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Video screen capture
Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay prisoner.
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Screenshot from torture video
Disturbing and graphic footage of two tribal Papuan men being tortured, allegedly by Indonesian soldiers, has led to widespread demands for an independent inquiry.
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An illustrative depiction of torture in a North Korean gulag
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Hot Docs
Diane Beaver, a major subject in the film The Guantanamo Trap
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Video screen capture
John Kiriakou, CIA Torture Whistleblower
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Naiel Thejel Ganeen, a leader of the Sabian Mandaean community, was kidnapped in 2006 and held for nine days of torture, and repeatedly referred to as an infidel. He was released after kidnappers received a $40,000 ransom, but is left with a scarred arm suffered from shrapnel in a mock execution.
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Former vice president Dick Cheney.
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