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  • July 2008

    • Secret Justice Memo Bares CIA Torture Defense

      newser  |  CNN  |  22 hours, 24 minutes ago

      Secret Justice Memo Bares CIA Torture Defense

      The Bush administration advised the CIA in 2002 that its agents would not be prosecuted on anti-torture legislation as long as they professed an "honest belief" that their actions would not cause severe pain and anguish, CNN reports. The memo is one of three made public by the ACLU, and the rights group says they prove the Justice Department essentially sanctioned torture. More »

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      Department of Justice  • CIA  • torture  • ACLU  • Freedom of Information Act

    • Ex-Inmates Say Russia Keeps 'Torture Prisons'

      newser  |  NPR  |  Jul 14, 08 6:30 AM CDT

      Ex-Inmates Say Russia Keeps 'Torture Prisons'

      Overcrowding and disease are comparatively minor problems for inmates in Russia's alleged "torture prisons," where convicts are said to suffer regular beatings. Officials insist that they probe all complaints, but NPR has yielded harrowing stories from ex-inmates after four were reportedly clubbed to death this spring. "God help you," one former prisoner said, "if you end up in a Russian jail." More »

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      Russia  • torture  • prison  • inmates

    • Teen Rapes Reported at Mugabe Torture Camps

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Jul 6, 08 8:30 AM CDT

      Teen Rapes Reported at Mugabe Torture Camps

      Teenage pregnancy rates have spiked after youth militia members began raping Zimbabwean girls in President Robert Mugabe's torture camps, human rights workers tell the Times of London . The stigma against rape victims has kept the victims mostly silent, but a single hospital saw a spike of 16 expectant teenagers, and the trend is thought to be fairly widespread. More »

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      Zimbabwe  • Robert Mugabe  • rape  • torture  • Movement for Democratic Change  • teen pregnancy  • MDC  • militia  • parliament

    • Cops Probe 'Horrific' London Murder of French Students

      newser  |  BBC  |  Jul 4, 08 5:32 AM CDT

      Cops Probe 'Horrific' London Murder of French Students

      Scotland Yard detectives are investigating the "frenzied" murder of two French research students in their flat on a quiet London street, the BBC reports. The biochemistry students were tied up and stabbed a total of 243 times before being set alight. A man was seen running from the building after an explosion. More »

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      murder  • London  • torture  • arson  • stabbing  • Imperial College London

    • Hitchens Agrees: Waterboarding Is Torture

      newser  |  Vanity Fair  |  Jul 3, 08 3:10 PM CDT

      Hitchens Agrees: Waterboarding Is Torture

      "You may have read by now the official lie about this treatment, which is that it simulates the feeling of drowning," Christopher Hitchens writes of waterboarding in Vanity Fair . "You feel that you are drowning because you are drowning," concludes the author, who experienced the controversial interrogation technique himself. "I find I don't want to tell you how little time I lasted." More »

    • Rendition Victim Loses US Torture Appeal

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jul 1, 08 7:56 AM CDT

      Rendition Victim Loses US Torture Appeal

      A Canadian software engineer has lost an appeal against the US for his torture in Syria on a technicality, Reuters reports. Syrian-born Maher Arar, whose story inspired the Hollywood movie Rendition , was forced off a flight in New York in 2002 and shipped to Syria, where he says he was tortured for more than a year. More »

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      Condoleezza Rice  • torture  • Canada  • Syria  • rendition

    • Gitmo Prisoner Charged in Cole Bombing

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jul 1, 08 2:18 AM CDT

      Gitmo Prisoner Charged in Cole Bombing

      A suspected al-Qaeda terrorist held at Guantanamo Bay for six years has been charged with masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors and injured 50 others. The treatment of Saudi prisoner Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri in custody, which included waterboarding by interrogators, will be a key element of his defense, reports the Washington Post. More »

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      al-Qaeda  • CIA  • Pentagon  • Guantanamo Bay  • torture  • waterboarding  • USS Cole

  • June 2008
  • May 2008

    • Ex-Detainee Describes Gitmo Tortures

      newser  |  ABC News  |  May 21, 08 12:02 PM CDT

      Ex-Detainee Describes Gitmo Tortures

      A man arrested in Pakistan and held as an enemy combatant in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay was hung from the ceiling, beaten, and shocked with jolts of electricity, he testified to Congress yesterday. The German-born Turkish citizen told lawmakers that US interrogators also forced water down his throat. He was released without charge after nearly 5 years in custody. More »

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      Guantanamo Bay  • torture  • War on Terror  • waterboarding  • detainee  • interrogation  • Kandahar  • enemy combatants  • harsh interrogation

    • FBI Stalled in Addressing Prisoner Abuse

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 20, 08 1:56 PM CDT

      FBI Stalled in Addressing Prisoner Abuse

      FBI agents dragged their feet in reporting torture inflicted on prisoners by Defense contractors and CIA employees, an an internal FBI report shows, but agents themselves generally did not participate in torture. FBI brass, however, was scolded for not providing more guidance or “pressing harder” to curb other agencies’ actions, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      FBI  • Department of Justice  • CIA  • torture  • Department of Defense  • Robert Mueller

    • Fritzl's Crimes Rooted in Literary History

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  May 18, 08 8:03 PM CDT

      Fritzl's Crimes Rooted in Literary History

      Josef Fritzl's crimes stunned the world, but such demented patriarchs have long haunted Austrian literature. The dark 1852 story "Turmalin" depicts a deranged husband locking up his daughter; the 1917 novel The Grave of the Living tells of a troubled family and an imprisoned child. "This is the cultural matrix from which Josef Fritzl emerged," writes Ritchie Robertson in the Times Literary Supplement . More »

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      torture  • literature  • Josef Fritzl  • incest  • Vienna  • patriarchy

    • Afghan Appeals Death Sentence Over Women's Rights Charge

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 18, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      Afghan Appeals Death Sentence Over Women's Rights Charge

      An Afghan journalism student who has been sentenced to death claims he was tortured into falsely confessing that he had written an article championing women's rights. "I would never let myself write such an article," said the student, 24, in court today in a desperate bid to overturn his sentence for insulting Islam. The proceedings offer a rare glimpse into the conservative religious impact on Afghanistan's developing legal system. His trial has been adjourned until next week. More »

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      Afghanistan  • torture  • women's rights  • death sentence

    • Judge Orders CIA to Release 'Torture' Memo

      newser  |  Reuters  |  May 9, 08 6:30 AM CDT

      Judge Orders CIA to Release 'Torture' Memo

      A federal judge has ordered the CIA to release a 2002 memo believed to outline interrogation methods that may amount to torture. The ACLU, which brought the suit sparking the order, claims that the memo details harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, and calls it "one of the most important torture documents still being withheld by the Bush administration." The judge will decide whether to make the memo public on Monday, reports Reuters. More »

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      CIA  • torture  • waterboarding  • interrogation techniques  • ACLU  • harsh interrogation  • civil liberties

    • Huffington Unmasks 'Pandering' McCain

      newser  |  Huffington Post  |  May 6, 08 6:37 PM CDT

      Huffington Unmasks 'Pandering' McCain

      John McCain said after the 2000 election he hadn’t voted for George Bush, Arianna Huffington wrote yesterday, and the bombshell has provoked angry denials from the camp of the future GOP nominee, whom she once "admired and even loved." Firing back, the Huffington Post founder further details McCain’s “Shakespearean” fall from maverick status. More »

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      John McCain  • George W. Bush  • torture  • religious right  • Arianna Huffington

  • April 2008
  • March 2008

    • Former Prisoner to Detail Torture on 60 Minutes

      newser  |  CBS  |  Mar 30, 08 4:30 AM CDT

      Former Prisoner to Detail Torture on 60 Minutes

      A former terror suspect will reveal details of tortures he suffered in 5 years of US custody tonight on 60 Minutes, reports CBS News. American authorities seized the ethnic Turk in Pakistan and continued to torture him even after determining he was innocent, he charges. The Pentagon refutes his claims. "The abuses are not only unsubstantiated and implausible, they are simply outlandish," said a Pentagon spokesman in a statement. More »

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      Pentagon  • Guantanamo Bay  • torture  • suspected terrorists  • 60 Minutes  • electrical shocks

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