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Mexican Army Accused Of Torture By Amnesty International | World Latest News | SWDI News Blog | Movies | Songs | WallpapersThe group said one case involves 25 Tijuana police officers detained on corruption allegations. The officers say troops put their feet in water and applied electric shocks to their bodies, including their genitals.
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Two Former Bagram Detainees Held Without Charge Describe Torture and Wrongful ImprisonmentThe Mail Tribune newspaper of Southern Oregon published a story on Amy Goodman’s tour stop in Ashland, Oregon. Reporter Paris Achen wrote, "Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! , told a crowd of about 300 people at Ashland’s Southern Oregon University Sunday night that print and TV media have ...
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Court rejects David Miliband bid to suppress CIA evidence | World news | The GuardianThe high court today flatly rejected claims by David Miliband , the foreign secretary, that releasing evidence of the CIA 's inhuman and unlawful treatment of UK resident Binyam Mohamed would harm Britain's relations with the US by giving away intelligence secrets. Evidence that the ...
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Cleric Wields Religion to Challenge Iran’s Theocracy - NYTimes.comCleric Wields Religion to Challenge Iran’s Theocracy CAIRO — For years, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri criticized Iran ’s supreme leader and argued that the country was not the Islamic democracy it claimed to be, but his words seemed to fall on deaf ears. Now many Iranians, including ...
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AP NewsBreak: China holds, mistreats US geologist - Yahoo! NewsSometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly visit. He rolled up his sleeve, revealing the burns where his interrogators pressed lit cigarettes into his arm. Xue also had ...
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Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries - Boing BoingWhen it was revealed that the U.S. resorted to torture to extract information from prisoners, many people my age must have had a very somber thought for the thousands of young Americans who had given their lives on the beaches of Normandy in a brave effort to rid the world of governments that ...
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OpEdNews - by Ray McGovern: Shining Light on Roots of TerrorismArticle: Media commentary on the upcoming 9/11 trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has raised concern that state secrets may be divulged, including details about how the Bush administration used torture to extract evidence about al-Qaeda. ############### “Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,' but ...
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Key 9/11 Suspect to Be Tried in New York - NYTimes.comKey 9/11 Suspect to Be Tried in New York WASHINGTON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and four other men accused in the plot will be prosecuted in federal court in New York City, a federal law enforcement official said early on ...
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Another Day, Another Torture Memo - The Daily Dish | By Andrew SullivanAnother Day, Another Memo Daphne Eviatar sorts through the documents released on Friday: The most recently released memos have not gotten much attention, as torture fatigue sets in and the Bush torture program becomes old news. But the FBI memo is important because it adds to the growing ...
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Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arar—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arar “When the history of this distinguished court is written, today’s majority decision will be viewed with dismay,” writes Guido Calabresi, the former Yale Law dean and a man widely viewed as the most illustrious living member of the Second Circuit Court ...
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