Torture News
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Kabul -
The Afghan government is making progress in reducing the torture of conflict detainees, the UN said Wednesday, though more than a third still suffer mistreatment.
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President Barack Obama wants Congress to vote to authorize U.S. military force against ISIS, and may ask for it as early as Friday, February 6. Why Congress must approve this request, including the use of boots on the ground.
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Riyadh -
While President Obama travels to Saudi Arabia to mourn the passing of a King Abdullah, four of the king's imprisoned daughters have disappeared off social media, and activists are concerned the women have passed on.
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In the framework of the rule of law, the only argument in support of a possible use of torture is a "time bomb." Where is the line drawn?
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Washington D.c. -
In the years before the December release of a declassified Senate Intelligence Committee report that detailed the C.I.A.'s use of torture and deceit in its detention program, the agency conducted an internal review.
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London -
Rights group Amnesty International urged European countries on Tuesday to come clean on alleged cooperation with CIA operations involving torture and help bring those responsible to justice.
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Bucharest -
Romania is "ready to clear up" allegations that the country hosted secret CIA detention centres, the foreign ministry said Tuesday -- though it stressed that Bucharest had "no proof" such prisons existed.
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Washington -
Defenders and critics of the CIA clashed over the release of a US report that revealed harrowing details of America's torture of "war on terror" detainees, and opened fresh political wounds.
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Washington -
Former US vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday defended America's now-banned program that tortured Al-Qaeda suspects, praising the CIA operatives who ran it as heroes.
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In the wake of the public release of the Senate's CIA torture report summary, conservatives and agency operatives have been in full apologist mode.
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Mc Lean -
US spymaster John Brennan admitted Thursday that some CIA interrogators had used unauthorized and "abhorrent" tactics in the past decade and said he believes torture tends to lead to false intelligence.
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Moscow -
Russia on Thursday called a damning US report on the torture of detainees "shocking" and urged global pressure to force Washington to release still-classified details on rights violations.
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Mc Lean -
US spymaster John Brennan admitted Thursday that some CIA interrogators had used unauthorized and "abhorrent" tactics in the past decade and said he believes torture tends to lead to false intelligence.
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Washington -
CIA spymaster John Brennan was to confront his agency's legacy of torture head-on Thursday, staging a rare news conference to defend his officers' brutal response to the September 11 attacks.
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Washington -
President George W Bush was fully aware and an "integral part" of the CIA's torture of terror suspects, his vice-president Dick Cheney said Wednesday.
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Paris -
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Wednesday that the United States had committed "inexcusable crimes" during its torture programme detailed by a US Senate report.
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Warsaw -
Poland's former president publicly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that his country hosted a secret CIA prison where a US Senate report says torture was used against Al-Qaeda suspects.
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Washington -
A damning report on the United States' brutal treatment of War on Terror detainees triggered worldwide condemnation and calls for CIA agents and senior officials to face justice.
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Washington -
More than a decade after the September 11 attacks, a bruised and divided United States is still grappling with their dark legacy, as the squalid details of CIA torture dominate front pages.
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Bejing -
China on Wednesday urged the United States to "correct its ways" after a damning U.S. Senate report detailed use of torture by the CIA."China has consistently opposed torture," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular briefing.
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Washington -
The United Nations and human rights groups called Tuesday for the criminal prosecution of US officials after a Senate report detailed a brutal CIA torture program.
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Washington D.c. -
The disclosure of widespread torture of Muslim detainees, CIA spying on the U.S. Senate, and police violence, especially against blacks, raises the question of whether the U.S. has become a police state.
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Washington -
The director of the CIA insisted Tuesday that US agents' use of brutal interrogation techniques against Al-Qaeda suspects helped prevent attacks, in the wake of a critical Senate report.
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Washington -
US President Barack Obama said Tuesday the CIA's torture of Al-Qaeda suspects, as documented in a Senate report, had been "contrary to our values.
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Washington -
The brutal interrogation methods used by the Bush-era CIA on Al-Qaeda terror suspects were "not effective" and yielded little actionable intelligence, according to a highly-anticipated US Senate report released Tuesday.
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Geneva -
A UN watchdog on Friday slammed police shootings of blacks in the United States, days after a decision not to prosecute a white officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teen sparked nationwide protests.
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Geneva -
The United States said Wednesday it did not condone torture under any circumstances, but acknowledged to a UN anti-torture watchdog it had "crossed the line" following the September 11 attacks.
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Abuja -
From electric shocks and sexual violence to ripping out nails and teeth to extract confessions, torture has become so commonplace in Nigeria's criminal justice system that some police stations have an officer in charge of the practice, Amnesty Internat...
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When you fight the monster, you risk becoming the monster. The CIA has a tremendously difficult task in confronting and fighting violent terrorists in hostile territories, but engaging in torture raises the risk of retaliatory terrorism.
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Washington -
President Barack Obama has acknowledged that the United States tortured detainees during the ongoing 13-year war against terrorism.
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Torture Image
John Yoo. Yoo Tube/wikimedia commons
An illustrative depiction of torture in a North Korean gulag imugr
Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay prisoner. Video screen capture
Gone too far: An Iraqi detainee who died while under CIA interrogation at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. Abu Ghraib torture photos
John Kiriakou, CIA Torture Whistleblower Video screen capture
Former vice president Dick Cheney. tswartz/flickr
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. Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch
Deviant Art/Creative Commons
'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
Disturbing and graphic footage of two tribal Papuan men being tortured, allegedly by Indonesian soldiers, has led to widespread demands for an independent inquiry. Screenshot from torture video
Diane Beaver, a major subject in the film The Guantanamo Trap Hot Docs
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