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  • August 2007

    • Psychologists Won't Impose Gitmo Ban

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Aug 20, 07 8:38 AM CDT

      Psychologists Won't Impose Gitmo Ban

      (Newser) - The American Psychological Association has voted not to ban members from assisting with interrogations at Guantanamo and other military prisons, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Instead, the group approved a measure listing specific procedures members won't help with, including sleep deprivation and water-boarding. "If we remove psychologists from these facilities, people are going to die," said an Army psychologist. More »

    • Shrinks Fault CIA Torture Tactics

      Salon  |  Aug 15, 07 9:50 AM CDT

      Shrinks Fault CIA Torture Tactics

      (Newser) - The American Psychological Association, long chummy with the CIA, is set to condemn tactics the spy agency has been using to interrogate terror detainees, writes Salon . Members have in the past worked with the CIA to design techniques: now the group wants to distance itself by formally opposing a long list of tactics they consider torture at the organization's yearly convention this weekend. More »

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      CIA  • torture  • psychology  • detainee  • abuse  • interrogation  • sleep deprivation  • water boarding  • torture list

    • Libya Admits to Torturing Medics

      Associated Press  |  Aug 10, 07 5:07 AM CDT

      Libya Admits to Torturing Medics

      (Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi's son burnished his pro-Western image yesterday by admitting that Libya had tortured 5 nurses and a doctor once accused of spreading HIV among children, the AP reports. Seif al-Islam Gadhafi conceded that the "Benghazi six" were electrocuted and threatened after their 1999 imprisonment, but he did not apologize, and even accused one of exaggerating the torture he endured. More »

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      torture  • HIV  • Libya  • Moammar Gadhafi  • Bulgarian nurses  • Seif al Islam Gadhafi

    • After Uproar, Britain Reviews Asylum Policy

      Times (UK)  |  Aug 8, 07 6:55 AM CDT

      After Uproar, Britain Reviews Asylum Policy

      (Newser) - A row over the fate of 91 Iraqi interpreters working for the British military took a new turn today, with the government promising to reexamine its refusal to grant them asylum. The Times of London, which broke the story on Tuesday, now reports that Gordon Brown has ordered a review of its asylum policy towards Iraqi translators, some of whom have faced torture and kidnapping for their alleged collaboration. More »

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      Iraq  • Gordon Brown  • kidnapping  • torture  • British military  • asylum  • interpreters  • Des Browne

    • Freed Doctor Recounts Libyan Torture

      New York Times  |  Aug 2, 07 8:40 PM CDT

      Freed Doctor Recounts Libyan Torture

      (Newser) - In the wake of last week's jubilant homecoming of the Bulgarian nurses released from a Libyan prison, it's their Palestinian cellmate who’s first to go public with his story. Dr. Ashraf al-Hazouz’s joy at release after 8 years is “turning into a hunger for justice,” he says in an interview with the New York Times and a graphically detailed first-person account in der Spiegel.  More »

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      torture  • prison  • AIDS  • Libya  • nurses  • Bulgarian nurses

  • July 2007

    • Khmer Rouge Jailer First to Be Charged

      BBC  |  Jul 31, 07 3:31 PM CDT

      Khmer Rouge Jailer First to Be Charged

      (Newser) - A UN tribunal has charged an ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief with crimes against humanity in the torturing and killing of as many as 17,000 people during the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s. Kang Kek Ieu, known as Duch, ordered inmates executed at the "killing fields" near Phnom Penh, the BBC reports. He is one of five suspects the tribunal plans to investigate. More »

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      torture  • genocide  • Cambodia  • Khmer Rouge  • crimes against humanity  • Pol Pot  • Ta Mok  • Duch

    • Gitmo Prisoner Fights His Own Release

      Times (UK)  |  Jul 31, 07 6:21 AM CDT

      Gitmo Prisoner Fights His Own Release

      (Newser) - A detainee at Guantanamo Bay is doing everything he can in court—to stay in prison. Algerian Ahmed Belbacha, 38, is contesting his imminent release from the notorious detention camp because he fears he'll be tortured by Algerian security agents as a  suspected terrorist—or killed by Islamic terrorists for being a former state worker, reports the Times . More »

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      terrorism  • Guantanamo Bay  • torture  • Washington DC  • Guantanamo prisoners  • court  • Algeria

    • Libya Reveals Source of $$$ to Free Medical Workers

      BBC  |  Jul 28, 07 1:35 PM CDT

      Libya Reveals Source of $$$ to Free Medical Workers

      (Newser) - Libya announced details today about the deal that freed six foreign medical workers, as it  officially protested the pardoning of the workers by the Bulgarian government,  BBC reports. The group had been imprisoned in Libya since 1999 for infecting 438 children with HIV/AIDS. But international experts say there was absolutely no basis for the charges. More »

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      European Union  • torture  • AIDS  • Libya  • extradition  • Bulgaria  • pardon

    • Cheney Book Offers Rare Bits of Candor

      Raw Story  |  Jul 23, 07 5:23 PM CDT

      Cheney Book Offers Rare Bits of Candor

      (Newser) - Dick Cheney makes jokes about his own penchant for secrecy in a new biography due out tomorrow by journalist Stephen Hayes, Raw Story reports. The veep makes a rare admission of error, confessing to Hayes that the appointment of the Coalition Provisional Authority in the early stages of the war, rather than a provisional government of Iraqis, might have been a mistake. More »

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      torture  • Dick Cheney  • vice president  • biography

    • Bush OKs New Interrogation Guidelines

      Washington Post  |  Jul 21, 07 9:36 AM CDT

      Bush OKs New Interrogation Guidelines

      (Newser) - President Bush set broad new limits for questioning of CIA terror detainees yesterday, the Washington Post reports. The new regulations for "enhanced" interrogations—used to press suspects by means not allowed in US military custody—are an attempt at partial compliance with the Geneva Conventions. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Guantanamo Bay  • CIA  • torture  • human rights  • Geneva Convention

  • June 2007

    • CIA Helped Devise Torture Tactics

      Salon  |  Jun 21, 07 6:25 PM CDT

      CIA Helped Devise Torture Tactics

      (Newser) - The CIA apparently colluded with the US military to develop torture techniques for interrogating terrorist suspects, Salon reports. The program was based on methods originally designed to teach American special forces how to withstand abuse if captured. While the military's role in this "reverse engineering" had been previously exposed, the CIA link is a revelation.  More »

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      US military  • Pentagon  • CIA  • torture  • terrorist  • prison  • detainee  • Abu Ghraib  • POW  • Geneva Convention

  • May 2007
  • April 2007

    • The Decider With the 'Yee Haw' Aesthetic

      Salon  |  Apr 26, 07 10:01 AM CDT

      The Decider With the 'Yee Haw' Aesthetic

      (Newser) - You can learn a lot from the art in someone's office, says Sidney Blumenthal, even the oval one. George Bush's prized painting of cowboys riding into the unseen helps explain his "stay the course" mentality, while a painting of the Alamo feeds W's evangelically inflected insistence on a "fight to the finish." More »

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      George W. Bush  • White House  • art  • torture  • painting  • decorations

    • Padilla Jury Selection Begins

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Apr 16, 07 2:54 PM CDT

      Padilla Jury Selection Begins

      (Newser) - Jury selection began today in the trial against accused terrorist Jose Padilla, with  Judge Marcia Cooke ruling that prosecutors may make references to the 9/11 attacks, but not suggest that Padilla and his co-defendants were linked to them. "Any idea, through inference or otherwise, that these defendants are connected to 9/11 is not available to the government," Cooke said. More »

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      torture  • terrorist  • September 11  • trial  • bomb  • Jose Padilla

  • March 2007

    • They're Lucky They're Not in Guantánamo

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 30, 07 11:57 AM CDT

      They're Lucky They're Not in Guant&aacute;namo

      (Newser) - Iran's British captives may be embarrassed and anxious, but they  appear to be better off than many detainees in American and British hands, observes novelist Ronan Bennett. "They have not been hung from a forklift truck and photographed for the amusement of their captors. They have not had electrodes attached to their genitals or been set on by attack dogs." More »

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      Iran  • Guantanamo Bay  • torture  • hostage  • detainee  • captives

    • Judge Throws Out Rumsfeld Torture Suit

      Associated Press  |  Mar 28, 07 7:56 AM CDT

      Judge Throws Out Rumsfeld Torture Suit

      (Newser) - Donald Rumsfeld can't be held personally responsible for the alleged mistreatment of prisoners held in overseas military prisons on his watch. Calling the case “lamentable,” U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan nevertheless dismissed a suit against the former defense secretary on behalf of nine former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. More »

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      Iraq  • Afghanistan  • lawsuit  • torture  • prison  • Donald Rumsfeld

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