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Two self-confessed mass murderers are currently standing trial in the Western hemisphere: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Anders Behring Breivik. But how many people realise there is a third - a military tribunal - currently in progress?
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Naturalized U.S. citizen Yonas Fikre claims that he was detained in the United Arab Emirates last year and was tortured by FBI agents.
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A recent revelation by Polish officials has brought to light that the CIA operated a secret prison (black site) in a remote part of Poland where detainees were subjected to torture.
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A shocking video has come to light showing black Africans in Libya, imprisoned in a zoo by the rebels and being forced to eat the old Libyan flag.
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There are currently 12,000 US troops based in Malta that are awaiting deployment to Libya. They will be joined by Italian and French forces based on photographic evidence of encampments that have been set up in the desert.
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It has been revealed in a recent interview with Palestinian Minister for Captives Affairs, Ataollah Abu Sabah, that some 44,000 Palestinian inmates are currently held in Israeli prisons, 23 are members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
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As America works to hand over control of Afghan detention facilities to the Afghan authorities, a new report by an Afghan investigative commission says inmates at a Bagram prison claim they have been tortured.
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Barack Obama may have been a disappointment as the candidate of change, but the alternatives in 2012 are a Christian Zionist who may well start World War III, and a woman who would allow the unemployed to starve.
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The eight Republican candidates for president who participated in Saturday night's debate showed unity in their aversion to President Obama's policies. But on key foreign policy issues, they revealed their acute differences.
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More information has been discovered and released regarding the four mentally challenged adults being held in horrendous conditions in a basement room in Philadelphia. The video of the victims can be disturbing to some.
Update 10-19-2011
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Human rights group Amnesty International says the Syrian regime is using systematic torture against its opponents.
Detainees in Syria's prisons are routinely and systematically tortured in what amounts to crimes against humanity, says Amnesty International.
 Dustin Paxton's victim was beaten, starved and mutilated, and there's an effort underway to have people like Paxton be charged with a more serious offence : torture.
Canada ordered its intelligence agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture if public safety is at risk, it emerges.
 Armed militia groups in Libya have turned on one another and now rule most of the country, torturing their opponents with impunity, Amnesty International says.
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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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