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Rights group says Bahrain has resumed torturing detainees

bahrain.jpg The Gulf kingdom of Bahrain resumed torturing detainees ... ) said in a report released Monday. As of late 2007, "torture is back ... ;quot;The return of torture is especially distressing since Bahrain showed the political will a decade ago to end ...

Britain stands accused of colluding in torture

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US appoints special torture investigator

smoking a cigarette. CIA torture cases to be investigated A special US prosecutor has been ... will be torturing confessions to death penalty crimes out of ordinary citizens once again. So will cop shops all over the USA. Everyone involved in the Everyone involved in the Bush-Obama torture gulag should ...

Americans held in Pakistan complain of torture

the Internet and planning terrorist attacks inside Pakistan told a court on Tuesday they were tortured ... ”   "Since our arrest, the USA, FBI and Pakistani police have tortured us," said ...     Amnesty: murder, torture on both sides in southern Philippines ...

Spanish judge to probe Guantanamo torture claims

suspected torture and ill-treatment of inmates at the US prison of Guantanamo Bay, a judical source said ... with his attempt to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet from Britain on charges of torture ... . (AFP) (Baltasar Garzón, Guantanamo, international justice, spain, torture, universal ...

Anti-torture group visits Kurdish rebel's prison in Turkey

turkish flag.jpg A European anti-torture delegation has visited Kurdish ... for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) spent several hours on the prison island of Imrali in north western Turkey ... funding, again (Abdullah Öcalan, anti-torture group, Council of Europe ...

Cambodian rehab centres torture drug users

;quot;Individuals in these centres are not being treated or rehabilitated, they are being illegally detained and often tortured ... ;quot;there is no reason authorities would commit torture [...] we only help those people recover from drugs ... attacks judges over torture case (cambodia, detention, drug use, electric ...

UAE court acquits president's brother of torture

the brother of the country's president on charges of torturing a grain merchant in 2004. Although a video recording was produced showing Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan torturing the merchant, the court ... -Nahyan, torture, torture sheikh, torture video, United Arab Emirates) ...

Britain attacks judges over torture case

material related to allegations of torture involving the CIA. Miliband's lawyers accused two ... alleged torture while in US detention.   Launching an appeal against that ruling, Jonathan Sumption ... .   Arrest and torture Mohamed, 31, an Ethiopian-born British resident, was arrested in Pakistan in April ...

Brazil anounces truth commission on torture

to investigate torture during the country's 1964-85 military dictatorship. The move by President Luiz ... anyone for the murder and widespread torture of dissidents during its dictatorship, which pushed ... news site. "We believe there is a relationship between torture today and the impunity ...

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