School For Torture Targets Falun Gong in China
One of the tortures used on the practitioners involves handcuffing them awkwardly between bunk beds, and then yanking the beds apart, causing excruciating pain.
Read More →Magazine’s Account of Wrenching Torture Shows Split in Chinese Regime
By Matthew Robertson | The Epoch Times When a long news article is published in China explaining in detail how torture implements with names like the “Tiger Bench” and the “Death Bed” are used against prisoners in a labor camp, you can bet that it wasn’t by accident. But whatever the thoughts were of those in [...]
Read More →Baghdad’s Camp Nama: brutal prison torture during Iraq war revealed
Al Arabiya A U.S. detention facility in Baghdad, shrouded in secrecy during the Iraq war, has been disparaged by British military officers speaking out about the human rights abuses they witnessed. British army personnel from two RAF squadrons, and one Army Air Corps squadron, were given guard and transport duties at the secret prison during [...]
Read More →UK starts investigating murders and tortures of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers
VOR A public inquiry into allegations that UK troops executed up to 20 unarmed prisoners, including a 14-year-old boy, and abused five other men nine years ago in Iraq has opened in London. The inquiry known as al-Sweady, after 19-year-old Hameed al-Sweady, one of those who died in a firefight between UK troops and Iraqi [...]
Read More →Waterboarding Americans and the redefinition of torture
By Nick Turse | TomDispatch Try to remain calm — even as you begin to feel your chest tighten and your heart race. Try not to panic as water starts flowing into your nose and mouth, while you attempt to constrict your throat and slow your breathing and keep some air in your lungs and fight [...]
Read More →Secret CIA black sites and globalizing torture
Human Rights Investigations Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency embarked on a highly classified program of secret detention and extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects. The program was designed to place detainee interrogations beyond the reach of law. Suspected terrorists were seized and secretly flown across national borders to be interrogated [...]
Read More →Bahraini Policemen Charged for Torturing Detainee to Death
Al Manar A Bahrain court on Sunday jailed two policemen for seven years each after convicting them of torturing to death a detainee in the wake of last year’s brutal crackdown on protests, a local daily said. The Gulf kingdom’s high criminal court found the two national security members guilty of torturing Abdul Karim Fakhrawi [...]
Read More →UK gov’t authorized ‘war crimes’ in Iraq
PressTV New explosive revelations show British soldiers have tortured Iraqi civilians who were hooded, strip-naked and assaulted in secret black jails under direct authority of the Ministry of Defense and in blatant violation of Geneva Conventions on rights of victims of war. The shocking abuse, sanctioned by the senior Ministry of Defense (MoD) lawyers, was [...]
Read More →Another Secret CIA Prison In Poland Confirmed
Russia Today Another CIA-run interrogation ‘black site’ has been exposed after the confessions of top-ranking Polish officials blew the lid on the dirtiest secret in Eastern Europe. The former head of Poland’s intelligence service secret Zbigniew Siemiatkowski has been charged with taking part in establishing a secret prison for the CIA in a remote part [...]
Read More →Beatings, sexual abuse, electric shock: US torture camps ‘still operative’
Russia Today A new report reveals that US forces continue to send detainees to prisons where torture is practiced, despite NATO’s promise to suspend prison transfers last September. The report carried out by the Afghan Independent Rights Commission and the Open Society Foundation documents numerous cases of torture in Afghan detention facilities between February 2011 [...]
Read More →Senate Panel’s Probe Of CIA Torture Program Concludes It Was “Far More Widespread And Systematic Than We Thought”
By Jeffrey Kaye The Public Record It could have been big news, if U.S. torture weren’t so anathema to the press corps, such that reporting upon it is considered either a fruitless and unprofitable enterprise, or among most of those who do venture into such waters, the sine qua non for such reportage must be ignorance and/or cover-up [...]
Read More →Why is an Israeli soldier worth more than a Palestinian child?
By Dana Halawa The Electronic Intifada I have read countless articles and watched numerous videos about Gilad Shalit being reunited with his family five years after his abduction. One typical report noted he was “just 19 years old in 2006 when he was cruelly and illegally abducted by Hamas.” I have been hearing of him for the past [...]
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