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wor.ldne.ws
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Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld got an unpleasant surprise during his visit to France today when human rights groups filed a complaint with the Paris Prosecutor before the “Court of First Instance” (Tribunal de Grande Instance) charging..
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Guardian Unlimited
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A British man who was held in Guantánamo Bay has begun a civil action against MI5 and MI6 over the tactics that they use to gather intelligence.
The suit has been brought by Tarek Dergoul, 29, who claims he was repeatedly tortured while he was held by..
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Times Online
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For 62 years, Akira Makino spoke not a word of what he’d done, but to those who knew him well it must have been obvious that he was a man with a tortured conscience. Why else would he have returned so often to the obscure, mosquito-blown town in the sou..
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BBC News
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An Italian judge has ordered 26 US citizens - most of them CIA agents - to stand trial over the kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. Osama Mustafa Hassan was allegedly seized by the CIA and flown to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. Se..
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Yahoo News
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Iban al Shakh al Libby told intelligence agents that he was close to Al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri and "understood an awful lot about the inner workings of Al-Qaeda," former FBI agent Jack Clonan told the broadcaster...
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Guardian Unlimited
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The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its clandestine torture flights programme, the Guardian can reveal...
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Economist
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IT PAYS to be skeptical about the significance of opinion polls. Depending on what questions the pollsters ask, and how, the most ridiculous or startling results may be generated. But some polls throw up genuinely disturbing information. According to one..
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Reuters
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The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday.
"I would have no problems with describing this practice as falling under the prohibition of..
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BBC News
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Nato countries risk turning a blind eye to torture by continuing to transfer detainees to Afghan prisons, according to a report from Amnesty International.
The report cites what it calls "consistent" incidences of torture and other abuse by Afghanistan..
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BBC News
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Widespread use of torture is continuing in Turkey despite the government's "zero tolerance" policy, says human rights group Amnesty International.
A new report acknowledged improvements in the Turkish criminal justice system in recent years.
But Amn..
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BBC News
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An inquiry has found no evidence that British airports were used by the CIA flying terrorist suspects for torture in other countries.
The investigation by the Association of Chief Police Officers followed claims by campaign group Liberty concerning "ex..
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News.com.au
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Islanders cheered outside the tiny territory's courthouse yesterday as one of the most divisive chapters in the history of the former penal colony ended in a guilty verdict.
The mystery and the innuendo surrounding the 2002 murder of Sydney woman Janel..
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Sydney Morning Herald
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Dick Cheney has arrived in Sydney, as popular as the traffic snarls he brings, as palatable as the gulag at Guantanamo he helped create. We are told he's here to show appreciation for Australia's support in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. He is an od..
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Guardian Unlimited
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In the fight against cruelty, barbarism and extremism, America has embraced the very evils it claims to confront...
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Canada.com
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The U.S. government is not apologizing for its treatment of Maher Arar, CTV News reported Friday...
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