Human Rights | Torture News

2010-03-14: Headlines

• Independent: Torture Garden, By Octave Mirbeau trs Michael Richardson 2010-03-14

  A fin de siècle horror story, this rebarbative novel begins with a group of cynical French intellectuals discussing murder; one of their number announce ...

• Independent: Clive Stafford Smith: The spooks are being sold down the river 2010-03-14

  "We did not practise mistreatment or torture then and do not do so now, nor do we collude in torture or encourage others to torture on our behalf.

• The Guardian: UK 'ignoring' systemic evidence of torture among asylum seekers 2010-03-14

  Ministers now plan to review the use of force against asylum seekers by British security guards after a Border Agency report on abuse conceded that seriou ...

• The Guardian: Jenny Holzer 2010-03-14

  Torture is Barbaric. Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise. Lack of Charisma May be Fatal. Then there are the Mother and Child phrases – ringing recollecti ...

• The Guardian: We punish those we should protect 2010-03-14

  The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, a charity that has conducted independent case analysis, accuses the Home Office of rejecting ...

• The Guardian: Executed by Saddam Hussein: the death of Observer reporter Farzad Bazoft, 20 ... 2010-03-14

  Eventually, on 15 March, the British consul-general in Baghdad, Robin Kealy, was summoned to Abu Ghraib prison and informed that Farzad would be hanged ...

• Ha'aretz: Health Min., Israel Medical Association probing whether physicians failed ... 2010-03-14

  The Health Ministry and the Israel Medical Association are examining claims that doctors at Laniado Hospital in Netanya and at Kishon Pri ...

• Broadway World: Blank Theatre Company Ends Run of Durang's WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND ... 2010-03-14

  The Blank Theatre Company's second production of its 19th season, Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them by Christopher Durang will end its run ...

• Washington Post: Critics: Military trial of terror suspects could open cases to legal uncertainty 2010-03-14

  Supporters of the military system say they have resolved problems with alleged torture by ensuring that fresh FBI interrogation teams got new ...

• The Epoch Times: Profiling courage in the face of adversity in China 2010-03-14

  He is an advocate for justice in the Chinese courts and wrote openly about his own arrest and torture in 2009. Gao was named one of China's top ten lawyer ...

• MiamiHerald.com: Unconscionable imprisonment 2010-03-14

  Systematic beatings, a daily torture made more odious and vicious by the fact that the inmates expected them every day. A torture foretold.

• radiojamaica.com: Bunting disagrees with UN Special Rapporteur on Torture 2010-03-14

  Peter bunting, Opposition Spokesman on National Security, says he disagrees with claims made about the conditions under which boys are being housed at ...

• Cinematical: SXSW Interview: 'American Grindhouse' Director Elijah Drenner 2010-03-14

  Torture porn has not been exclusively reviled for that issue, but have you found examples in the modern era where either physical or mental abuse of women ...

• Tribune Review: Berenson's 'Midnight House' examines political place for torture 2010-03-14

  The details matter most in Alex Berenson's "The Midnight House," the fourth novel featuring contrary CIA agent John ...

2010-03-13: Headlines

• Lake County Record-Bee: Torture suspect attempts to illicit response from the gallery 2010-03-13

  LAKEPORT -- For one of the first times in more than 10 court appearances, a Sonoma County man accused of attempted murder ...

• ChattahBox: Court Approves Torture Suit Against Donald Rumsfeld 2010-03-13

  US (ChattahBox) – In what is being called by some groups a monumental decision in the case of US torture claims, a court has ruled that former Defense ...

• Firedoglake: The World They Set On Fire 2010-03-13

  About his complicity in wars of aggression, in torture, in massive financial crimes against humanity. The truth has indicted him.

• Asian Tribune: US Officials who authorized and sanctioned brutal torture Exonerated by Obam ... 2010-03-13

  The Obama administration's Justice Department 'clearing' or exonerating two Bush administration officials who wrote legal memoranda to the Bush White House ...

• Huffington Post: The Bible as Porn? 2010-03-13

  The prophet Ezekiel likens the capital cities of Samaria and Jerusalem to two young women and proceeds to subject them to graphic humiliations and abuse.

• PEJ News: Bushes Brain Karl Rove Thinks Torture Is Good 2010-03-13

  Karl Rove has caused a storm of protest by saying that he is proud of waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” used on prisoners by ...

• TamilNet: US rights report adds to Colombo's woes over war-crime accusations 2010-03-13

  On torture, the report said, "reports of secret government facilities where suspected LTTE sympathizers were taken, tortured, and often killed.

• Mirror.co.uk: Karl Rove: Torture is good 2010-03-13

  A top adviser to George W. Bush insists he is "proud" waterboarding and other outlawed interrogation methods were used on terr ...

• KATU: Families report 3 missing women in killer's Seattle photo stash 2010-03-13

  Three of the women whose photos were found in a convicted serial killer's Seattle-area storage locker have been ...

• News of the World: Peaches dates torture porn guy 2010-03-13

  SORRY PEACHES, you've got rotten taste when it comes to your latest boyfriend - and your dad Sir BOB GELDOF will go nuts when he hears my news on ELI ROTH.

• UK Express: JUDGE'S ANGER AS LAW FORCES HIM TO FREE TORTURE YOBS 2010-03-13

  A TOP judge has attacked the justice system for tying his hands with “ridiculously short sentences” after a gang of four youths beat ...

• Telegraph.co.uk: Dangerous dogs: Bred to fight, left to die 2010-03-13

  The owners goad and sometimes torture their dogs to make them aggressive. They set them on other dogs, and hang them from branches to strengthen their jaws.

• News of the World: VENABLES 'ESCAPES THE DOCK' 2010-03-13

  Last night the cop who led James' murder case revealed probation chiefs KNEW Venables was a potential sex offender because of the nature of James' torture ...

• Kurdish Globe: Berivan must be released now 2010-03-13

  Constant and endless suppression of Kurds soon after being placed under the four occupying usurpers' rule, via arrests, imprisonments, torture ...

• African Press Agency: US report makes damning criticism of Gambia's human rights record 2010-03-13

  “Human rights problems included government complicity in the abduction of citizens ; torture and abuse of detainees and prisoners, including political ...

• Seattle Post Intelligencer: Three missing women appear in killer's Seattle photo stash 2010-03-13

  Three of the women whose photos were found in a convicted serial killer's Seattle-area storage locker have been linked so far to missing person cases ...

• The News International: Sherry questions state's 'silence' over police torture 2010-03-13

  By our correspondent ISLAMABAD: The police torture of the accused persons that made headlines in the electronic media a few days ago echoed in the National ...

• Salon: Even the most radical policies are hailed as "sensible centrism" as long ... 2010-03-13

  Nowadays, by eliminating the need for evidence (or using evidence gained from torture or hearsay), the State can enforce a single, unified political message ...

• International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: Abbasgholizadeh: Suppression Has Changed Iranian Women's Priorities 2010-03-13

  ... justice against murderers of their children and trials of those who have raped women or who have committed sexual abuse through psychological torture.

• Nepal Monitor: Four Serious Problems in Nepal's Human Rights: US Report 2010-03-13

  In 2008 a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report found more than 200 cases of torture or abuse in police custody of boys and girls as young as 13, mostly during ...

• Arab Times: Kuwait hit in rights report 2010-03-13

  On respect for human rights, the report pointed out the Criminal Law prohibits torture and other inhumane punishment but some police officers have been ...

• Daily Monitor: Tales of torture and death in Uganda's torture centres 2010-03-13

  By SOLOMON MUYITA (email the author) The March 11 country human rights report released by the American government faults the Ugandan government in at least ...

• The Associated Press: Mexico defends army courts after US rights report 2010-03-13

  The US State Department's annual human rights report cites hundreds of complaints of illegal detention, some involving abuse or killings allegedly carried ...

• Lancaster Newspapers: Torture suspect guilty 2010-03-13

  A Lancaster County jury convicted a city man Thursday of repeatedly abusing and torturing his victim.

• Bulatlat: A Primer on the Illegal Arrest, Detention and Torture of 43 Health Workers 2010-03-13

  The 43 health workers, also known as “Morong 43”, are health professionals and volunteer community health workers who were arrested in Rizal on February 6 ...

• Today's Zaman: US State Dept says Afghanistan, Iraq rights worsen 2010-03-13

  The report said local government and insurgent forces in Russia's North Caucasus region reportedly were responsible for murders, torture and kidnappings.

• The Film Stage: [Review] Remember Me 2010-03-13

  Think Titantic with physical abuse. Pattinson's doing his best James Dean here – the rebel with “kind of like sort of” a cause. Finally given the chance ...

• Haveeru Online: Misogyny, women's rights and the Maldives society 2010-03-13

  Two men gang-raped a 21-year-old girl and took photos of the scene in Maradhoo of Seenu Atoll, after her boyfriend allegedly lured her to an abandoned ...

• Express Buzz: Nithyananda case lost in transit? 2010-03-13

  The wiser older scholars made animals sacred so that the hapless animals can live without a torture. Without religion painted over it people dont pay ...

• Delaware County Daily Times: Harsher punishment needed to help fight abuse of animals 2010-03-13

  I very much agree with the statement saying that animal abuse is a really sick and inhumane crime that any person can commit. I mean, people torture ...

• The Nation, Pakistan: Police warned against torture cells 2010-03-13

  LAHORE - Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Pervez Rathore has said that all officials of Lahore police should respect law-abiding citizens ...

• CNN: U.N. must stand up for rights of Iranians 2010-03-13

  A number of UN members expressed deep concern about post-election abuses and chronic problems such as torture, the execution of juvenile offenders ...

• Eurasia Review: U.S. State Department Report Takes UzbekistanTo Task 2010-03-13

  Tajikistan, the report said, remained "an authoritarian state," with restrictions on elections, the press and NGOs; patterns of police abuse and impunity ...

• Haveeru Online: "No laws against domestic violence in Maldives" 2010-03-13

  Several reasons cited for not reporting issues of torture to relevant authorities include, “fear of reprisals from abusers, losing custody of children ...

• Times LIVE: Alleged gangsters accuse cops of torture 2010-03-13

  Four alleged members of a Chatsworth gang, the Teddy Mafia, were granted an interdict in the High Court in Durban this week against senior policemen ...

• Shields Gazette: Torture victim's mum will never forget 2010-03-13

  THE heartbroken mum of torture victim Andrew Gardner today – one year on from his murder – told how she will never get over her son' ...

• Globe and Mail: After falsehoods, skepticism needed 2010-03-13

  "Torture and abuse methods included, but were not limited to, beating by stick, scorching bar, or iron bar; flogging by cable; battering by rod;

• Periódico 26: US Practice of Torture a Bad Influence on the World 2010-03-13

  Geneva.— The reaction of the United States and its allies —after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks— of intensifying torture during investigati ...

• KAKE: Hutchinson Mother Arrested For Death Of 3-Month-Old 2010-03-13

  ... out this is a horrible case of child abuse. I think that if she is found guilty than she should be subjected to the exact same torture she inflicted.

• Arab Times: 'Govt corruption remains a problem' 2010-03-13

  Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Articles 53, 159, and 184 of the criminal law code prohibit torture and other cruel ...

• GMA news.tv: RP scored for killings, state abuses in US gov't report 2010-03-13

  Members of the security services committed acts of physical and psychological abuse on suspects and detainees, and there were instances of torture,"  ...

• California Golden Blogs: California Ends UCLA's Season, Faces Washington in Pac-10 Tournament Final 2010-03-13

  Michael Roll did his best to torture us one more time (16 points in the first half, 27 in all), but other Bruins like Jerime Anderson and Reeves Nelson gave ...

• MyNC.com: Inspectors Visit Robeson Animal Shelter 2010-03-13

  Heartsticking is torture and must be done away with, but that is legislation that will have to plod it's way through - until it is done away ...

• Sunday Observer: NAM stands by Sri Lanka 2010-03-13

  Further, Sri Lanka has never been charged for humiliating, raping or inhuman torture of prisoners of war in detention camps like Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo ...

• Irish Times: BIOGRAPHY: JOHN MONTAGUE reviews Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual ... 2010-03-13

  And then, at the end, the Wall of the Victimisers, photos of the betrayers, torturers and guards, many of whom would still be alive, perhaps walking down ...

• dBusinessNews Triangle: Full Frame Announces Career Award Programming Honoring Liz Garbus and Rory Kennedy 2010-03-13

  Through a series of in-depth interviews with American guards who engaged in torture, higher-ranking officers, and detainees, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib reveal ...

2010-03-12: Headlines

• The Detroit News: Review: Scathing 'Green Zone' captures chaos and confusion of Iraq War 2010-03-12

  The manipulation of the gullible media, the torture and senseless imprisonment, the looting and chaos in the streets, and mostly the vast cluelessness th ...

• Center For American Progress: Torture and the Rule of Law 2010-03-12

  The Bush torture memos are “a stain on this nation's honor,” said Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) at a joint Center for American Progress and Alliance ...

• Independent: Water-ski challenge was torture says Bleakley 2010-03-12

  Christine Bleakley leaves Dover at the start of her challenge to water-ski across the English Channel for Sport Relief. Exhausted TV host Christine Bleakley ...

• Independent: Asylum-seekers abused by security guards 2010-03-12

  The move follows an investigation into allegations of abuse involving private firms employed by the Government to forcibly remove failed asylum- seeker ...

• RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Annual US Rights Report Cites Suffering Of War-Zone Civilians 2010-03-12

  The document points to what it calls reports of "serious police abuse," including the beating and even torture of people in custody.

• Vanity Fair: If There's One Thing Karl Rove is Proud of, It's Waterboarding 2010-03-12

  ... recuse himself from the investigation of beleaguered Governor David Paterson's alleged interference in a domestic abuse case involving one of his aides.

• Firedoglake: Were the Torturers Bypassing OLC in July 2004? 2010-03-12

  In his book, Jack Goldsmith reports that the CIA and White House accused him of “buckl[ing]” in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal.

• Online Journal: Arresting Taliban to cover America's backside 2010-03-12

  In addition to the various modes of torture employed at Guantanamo, we can safely assume that darker methods like psychotropic drugs and electroshock ...

• Asian Tribune: US Human Rights Report on Sri Lanka insinuates, Rajapaksa brother ... 2010-03-12

  During the final months of the war, the LTTE engaged in torture, arbitrary arrest, and detention; denied fair public trials; arbitrarily interfered ...

• BuzzFlash: Belligerent Repugs, Mitch's Match and a Whole Lot of Questions that Leave ... 2010-03-12

  They aided and abetted an illegal war, they sanctioned torture and abuse, they deregulated everything from soup to nuts, they aided and abetted corporati ...

• Lebanon: US rights report: corruption still plagues Lebanon - Daily Star 2010-03-12

  The Lebanese government continued to deny the use of torture, though authorities did acknowledge “violent abuse sometimes occurred during preliminary ...

• Lebanon: Rights-abuse criticism from a transgressor - Daily Star 2010-03-12

  Indeed, many reforms will be needed to tackle problems such as the use of torture, the practice of arbitrary arrests, or the intimidation of journalist ...

• The Guardian: What and when MI5 knew about torture 2010-03-12

  MI5 hadn't asked about torture "because that would make things difficult". In January this year [Manningham-Buller] refused to appear before ...

• The Guardian: Officials failed to investigate asylum detainee abuse claims – report 2010-03-12

  The woman, a 32-year-old Cameroonian torture victim, was subsequently handcuffed while being taken into the operating theatre for surgery, and again ...

• The Guardian: The bigger picture on asylum 2010-03-12

  It's good news that abuse against detained asylum seekers is being reviewed. But we need to ask why they're detained at all The top brass at the UK Border ...

• The Guardian: Torture and table tennis: Iraq hostage Peter Moore recounts life in captivity 2010-03-12

  Peter Moore recalls playing table-tennis with one of his captors: 'It was a good laugh.' Photograph: Reuters Peter Moore, the British IT expert who spent 31 ...

• NPR: The Nation: Lawyers, Terror & Torture 2010-03-12

  Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, DC. Liz Cheney came out against Holder ...

• NPR: Rove: Waterboarding Isn't Torture; Is Proud Of Techniques Used On Terrorists 2010-03-12

  Karl Rove is "proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists" and does not believe waterboarding is a form of torture ...

• Huffington Post: AT WAR: Rift Growing Between Al Qaeda And The Taliban? 2010-03-12

  Methods of torture used include: "beating by stick, scorching bar or iron bar, flogging by cable, battering by rod, electric shock, deprivation of sleep ...

• Huffington Post: Culture Zohn: Marina Abramovic: Confront Your Fear 2010-03-12

  You see the beginnings of another theme in her work: torture, self inflicted or in this case, inflicted by an Italian audience that took her a bit more ...

• ReliefWeb: 2009 Human Rights Reports: Colombia 2010-03-12

  ... forced disappearances; overcrowded and insecure prisons; torture and mistreatment of detainees; arbitrary arrest; a high number of pretrial detainee ...

• ReliefWeb: DRC: US, UN accuse forces of "crimes against humanity" 2010-03-12

  The charity, Women for Women, called on men to help reduce sexual abuse. "In December, we held a seminar for 550 trainers of trainers, including soldier ...

• eGov monitor: Australia Bans Torture And Prohibits Death Penalty 2010-03-12

  The Australian Human Rights Commission today welcomed the passage of the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Torture Prohibition and Death Penalty Abolition) Bill ...

• RTT News: Russia Says US Human Rights Report Is Not Objective 2010-03-12

  It accused both sides of being "engaged in killings, torture, abuse, violence, politically-motivated abductions and other brutal or humiliating treatment.

• Novinite.com: US Department of State 2009 Human Rights Report on Bulgaria* 2010-03-12

  Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment The constitution and law prohibit such practices; however, police sometimes ...

• Asmarino Independent: 2009 Human Rights Report: Eritrea 2010-03-12

  No known action was taken during the year to punish perpetrators of torture and abuse. There were numerous reports, corroborated by prison escapee ...

• Jollofnews: US States department publishes Gambia's rights rep... 2010-03-12

  According to the report, the Gambia's human rights problems revolve around government complicity in the abduction of citizens, torture and abuse ...

• News dominica: 2009 Human Rights Report: Dominica 2010-03-12

  Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment While the constitution prohibits such practices, there were reports that police used ...

• The Kubatana: Removal of sanctions not top priority in Zimbabwe 2010-03-12

  A lot more has to be done in stemming the levels of human rights abuse, still prevalent in our society including giving Zimbabweans a truly democratic ...

• Oromsis: Ethiopia : US State Department Reports Wide Spread 2010-03-12

  Human rights abuses reported during the year included unlawful killings, torture, beating, abuse and mistreatment of detainees and opposition supporters ...

• African Press Agency: Tsvangirai launches Zimbabwe torture report 2010-03-12

  APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday launched a report that highlights rampant torture of human rights defender ...

• News: Ethiopia: US State Department 2009 Human Rights Reports - Gadaa.com Oduu 2010-03-12

  Human rights abuses reported during the year included unlawful killings, torture, beating, abuse and mistreatment of detainees and opposition supporters ...

• Stabroek News: Torture and killings by security forces stain Guyana – human rights report 2010-03-12

  By Stabroek staff | March 12, 2010 in Local News Torture and mistreatment of suspects and detainees by security forces, killings by police and poor pri ...

• Register: Clinton report warns human rights are online too 2010-03-12

  The United States annual report on human rights might include a look at internet access and censorship but its real focus is good old-fashioned torture ...

• Globe and Mail: US report offers damning picture of human rights abuses in Afghanistan 2010-03-12

  While Taliban treatment of civilians is even worse, the report's assessment of vile prison conditions and routine abuse and torture by Afghan police ...

• Bangladesh News 24 hours: Spotlight on unlawful killings, political violence 2010-03-12

  Using figures provided by human rights organisations, the report states that the use of torture, which it says had decreased in the last year of the interim ...

• thebahamasweekly.com: 2009 Human Rights Practices Report on The Bahamas 2010-03-12

  Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment The constitution prohibits such practices, but human rights monitors and members ...

• Jollofnews: 2009 Human Rights Reports: The Gambia 2010-03-12

  Human rights problems included government complicity in the abduction of citizens; torture and abuse of detainees and prisoners, including political ...

• Bangladesh News 24 hours: US report highlights unlawful killings 2010-03-12

  Using figures provided by human rights organisations, the report states that the use of torture, which it says had decreased in the last year of the interim ...

• Republica: Tibetans repatriated from Nepal suffered torture in China: US 2010-03-12

  WASHINGTON, March 12: China´s human rights record worsened last year as authorities increased harassment of activists and repression in the Xinjiang regi ...

• San Luis Obispo Tribune: U.S. criticizes Afghanistan's poor' human rights record 2010-03-12

  If you see an objectionable comment, click the "report abuse" button below it. We will delete comments containing inappropriate links, obscenitie ...

• RT: Moscow hits back at US human rights accusations 2010-03-12

  It also said local government and insurgents in Russia's Caucasus were reportedly “engaged in killings, torture, abuse, violence, politically-motivated ...

• Cocorioko: Sierra Leone gets favourable human rights record report from US State Department 2010-03-12

  Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading The constitution and law prohibit such practices; however, there were reports that security and police force ...

• National Geographic: Headless Man's Tomb Found Under Maya Torture Mural 2010-03-12

  Detail of mural in Room Two of Bonampak's Temple of Murals. Photograph by Doug Stern, National Geographic Stock. The tomb of a headless man adorned ...

• BBC News: Protests as Egypt jails outspoken blogger Wael Abbas 2010-03-12

  Mr Abbas is described by the CPJ as a leading voice in an anti-torture campaign in Egypt, posting a number of videos on his blog that revealed abuse ...

• BBC News: Protests over case against Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas 2010-03-12

  Mr Abbas is described by the CPJ as a leading voice in an anti-torture campaign in Egypt, posting a number of videos on his blog that revealed abuse ...

• Morning Star Online: Guantanamo's forgotten prisoner 2010-03-12

  After months of abuse and torture at the hands of the CIA in Kandahar, Belbacha was transferred to Guantanamo in May 2002. Two months earlier, unbeknown ...

• Morning Star Online: Asylum-seeker abuse 'rife' 2010-03-12

  "What is often forgotten is that many in immigration detention centres are survivors of horrific violence, torture and abuse who, as a result ...

• The Press, York: Review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo; Running time: 152mins; Certificate ... 2010-03-12

  ... of torture, sexual abuse and ritualistic murder, but without the self-indulgence and agent-provocateur inclinations of Lars Von Trier's Antichrist.

• DeHavilland: MPs hear Business Statement 2010-03-12

  When was any protest made to the United States about the torture carried out by that country? When did MI5 officers know? Although I may be the only Member ...

• This is London: Freed Iraq hostage Peter Moore tells of mock executions and torture 2010-03-12

  Peter Moore, the former hostage in Iraq, told today of the horrific torture he endured. Mr Moore, 36, was abducted in May 2007 with four security guard ...

• Blackpool Gazette: Former hostage Peter Moore spoke in detail about the torture he suffered ... 2010-03-12

  In newspaper and television interviews, he described the moment he feared he had been shot dead when his captors staged a mock execution, as well as ...

• Mirror.co.uk: TORTURE LEFT ME PRAYING TO DIE 2010-03-12

  Freed British hostage Peter Moore was beaten every day during his kidnap hell in Iraq. Mr Moore, 36, who was freed in January ...

• This Is Lancashire: Film review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (15) 2010-03-12

  And that violence is graphic and shocking, including images of torture and sexual abuse that leave you watching the big screen through your fingers.

• Daily Mash: TORTURE-PORN THEME PARK INSUFFICIENTLY CRUEL FOR UK CHILDREN 2010-03-12

  A THEME park inspired by the graphic cruelty of 'torture porn' horror films is too mild for most British children, it was claimed yesterday.

• Daily Mail: Peter Moore: Freed hostage tells of torture inflicted by Iraqi captors 2010-03-12

  By Daily Mail Reporter The only survivor of the Iraq hostage crisis has spoken of the moment he feared he had been shot when his captors staged a mock ...

• Telegraph.co.uk: Judge slams 'ridiculously short sentences' and frees torture gang 2010-03-12

  A judge has criticised the justice system for tying his hands with "ridiculously short sentences" after he was forced to free a gang that took a teenager ...

• Mirror.co.uk: British hostage Peter Moore: Iraq torture left me praying to die 2010-03-12

  Freed British hostage Peter Moore was beaten every day during his kidnap hell in Iraq. Mr Moore, 36, who was freed in January ...

• Banmoco.co.uk: Iraqi torture survivor speaks for the first time of ordeal 2010-03-12

  The man who survived the longest British hostage crisis in the past two decades has spoken out about his ordeal, reliving months of Iraqi torture.

• Daily Mail: Security chiefs DID keep us in dark over torture claims, MPs admit 2010-03-12

  Spy chiefs misled Parliament's intelligence watchdog over Britain's knowledge of torture, MPs finally admitted yesterday.

• This is London: Waterboard torture 'stopped terrorist attacks on London' 2010-03-12

  One of George Bush's most senior advisers today defended the use of waterboarding as a vital weapon against terrorism. Karl Rove, the former US President' ...

• The News International: SC orders closure of all police torture cells 2010-03-12

  ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ordered closure of police torture cells in private houses in the jurisdiction of various police ...

• ScienceBlogs: Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and Culture 2010-03-12

  Evidence obtained under coercion, abuse or torture would have to be inadmissible. And the defense counsel must have full access to the evidence to be used ...

• ScienceBlogs: How Obama Can Fix the Civilian/Military Trial Problem 2010-03-12

  Evidence obtained under coercion, abuse or torture would have to be inadmissible. And the defense counsel must have full access to the evidence to be used ...

• Dallas Morning News: Karl Rove & Liz Taylor in her nightie 2010-03-12

  FORGET about all the Constitutional VIOLATIONS, domestic spying, bold lying, Justice Dept. bias, Walter Reed, Abu Ghraib, soldiers getting electrocuted ...

• Zimbabwe Telegraph: PM Tsvangirai launches torture report. 2010-03-12

  Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says there can be no national healing without forgiveness and no forgiveness without truth and justice ...

• News Yemen: IFJ Accuses Yemen of "brutal inhumanity" 2010-03-12

  He was snatched by gunmen on the streets of the capital Sana'a and since then has been subject to systematic abuse. For months security agencies as well ...

• Reuters: Torture, abuse mark Uzbekistan's rights record: US 2010-03-12

  ALMATY (Reuters) - Uzbekistan jailed political opponents, routinely tortured prisoners and committed other serious rights violations last year ...

• National Post: Terry Glavin: Reconstruction seizes up amid Afghan paralysis in Ottawa 2010-03-12

  While the tabloid “Afghan abuse” rumpus has been keeping us all entertained, everything our soldiers have been fighting and dying for has been quietly ...

• New York Times: Death Squad 2010-03-12

  Of all the crimes that sullied the record of the United States military in Iraq — the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the killings ...

• Newsweek: Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight 2010-03-12

  There's Rove, age 23, with Gerald Ford and George HW Bush; an intense set of 9/11 photos; and Rove dropping and doing 20 push-ups on Colin Powell's orders.

• AFP: Briton tells of torture during Iraq kidnap ordeal 2010-03-12

  LONDON — A Briton held hostage in Iraq for more than two-and-a-half years has revealed harrowing details of the torture meted out to him by his captors.

• DigitalJournal.com: Rove: Waterboarding not torture, "broke the will of terrorists" 2010-03-12

  Karl Rove, Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to former US President George W. Bush, said in an interview on Thursday that he is proud ...

• FT.com: Wolfgang Schauble's torture chamber 2010-03-12

  I hope it is not a breach of etiquette to criticise a guest writer in the FT. But I thought that the piece in today's paper on the euro by Wolfgang Schauble ...

• Brisbane Times: Painful memories come flooding back as Bulger killer returns to jail 2010-03-12

  Conjecture that Venables had begun to abuse alcohol and become compulsive about revealing his identity followed, and it now appears likely that authoritie ...

• Legal Info: Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal by Chinese Muslims Held at Guantanamo Bay 2010-03-12

  The Uyghers are not alone in fearing persecution, abuse or arrest if they are returned to their native countries. Approximately 185 prisoners remain in ...

• MotorTrend Magazine: Home » WOT » Ford Releases Specs and Images of New Taurus-Based Police ... 2010-03-12

  The concept is set to be unveiled later today, but these early release photos are the first look at the new Taurus-based car. Early rumors suggested the new ...

• Trading Markets: U.S. Critical Of Rights Abuses In China, N Korea And Iran 2010-03-12

  It accused both sides of being "engaged in killings, torture, abuse, violence, politically-motivated abductions and other brutal or humiliating treatment.

• The Moderate Voice: Karl Rove “Proud” US Tortured Detainees 2010-03-12

  Of course, the US did a lot of nasty things to its detainees, at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, and a lot of what it did amounted to torture as defined by any ...

• LubbockOnline.com: Duff: You can micromanage a family, or torture them, in The Sims 3 2010-03-12

  You'd think it would be impossible to screw up in a game like this - an open-ended sandbox where you micromanage the lives of virtual people.

• CNN: Florida reform school investigation finds no grounds for prosecutions 2010-03-12

  "With the passage of over 50 years, no tangible physical evidence was found to either support or refute the allegations of physical or sexual abuse,"  ...

• DigitalJournal.com: Rove: Waterboarding not torture, 'broke the will of terrorists' 2010-03-12

  Karl Rove, Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to former US President George W. Bush, said in an interview on Thursday that he is proud ...

• Nepalnews.com: Tibetans deported from Nepal face torture by Chinese authorities: US State 2010-03-12

  Tibetan refugees deported by Nepal for illegally entering its territory suffer torture at the hands of the Chinese authorities, the US State Department ...

• Colombia Reports: US report criticizes corruption and abuse in Colombia 2010-03-12

  Overcrowding, torture and mistreatment of inmates in prisons are also issues raised in the report. The report says that 39 trade unionists were assassinated ...

• MLive.com: Son of beaten woman to Randall Lachniet: 'We've completely had it with you' 2010-03-12

  Photos by Mark Copier | The Grand Rapids PressGeraldine "Betty" Oosterhouse, 80, listens to sentencing of her ...

• PR Web: Tamil Group highlights the plight of Tamil Women in North-East Sri Lanka ... 2010-03-12

  As detailed in a January 2002 report by World Organization Against Torture, Violence against Women in Sri Lanka, "Tamil women are frequently discriminated ...

• AFP: UN expert slams 'horrific' abuse in North Korea 2010-03-12

  "Practices to instil fear among the population are rampant, including public executions, torture, collective punishments and mistreatment of women ...

• U.S. News & World Report: Ex-CIA Spy Recounts Torture, Tension Hunting Al Qaeda Terrorists 2010-03-12

  One of the most useful tools that the CIA used to track al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah was a large sheet of butcher paper taped to ...

• Eurasia Review: “Outside the Law: Stories From Guantánamo”: Report On Screenings 2010-03-12

  ... the 188 men still held, the torture regime implemented by the Bush administration, British complicity in torture, the reasons for President Obama' ...

• The Zeitgeisty Report: Karl Rove is 'PROUD' of the Bush administration's use of torture 2010-03-12

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• Press TV: Bush aide Rove takes pride in torture 2010-03-12

  A senior advisor to former US President George W. Bush says he is "proud" of using "harsh interrogation methods" against alleged terror suspects.

• DAWN.com: US rights report highlights NRO fiasco 2010-03-12

  Major problems included extrajudicial killings, torture, and disappearances, it adds. According to the report, collective punishment was a problem in 2009 ...

• Modern Ghana: In Cameroon, CPJ alarmed by harassment of journalists 2010-03-12

  By cpj.org We are writing to express our alarm at a wave of arrests, harassment, criminal prosecutions and even abuse of at least a dozen journalists ...

• KVAL: Girl's death: Judge weighs fair trial, public's right to know 2010-03-12

  According to court documents, Maples died "in the course of, or as a result of, intentional maiming and torture of the victim." In an initial report ...

• CARIBWORLDNEWS.COM: Police Brutality Remains A Problem In Caribbean – US 2010-03-12

  Guyana was cited for killings by police, torture and mistreatment of suspects and detainees by security forces. The US rights report said security force ...

• Gold Coast Bulletin News: Lawyers go to the dogs 2010-03-12

  Goetschel mainly acted for dogs, but recently he branched out to represent a dead fish when an angler was accused of torture after it took him 10 minutes ...

• Middle East Online: Ex-Bush top aide 'proud' of torture 2010-03-12

  LONDON - A top aide to former US president George W. Bush has defended the use of harsh interrogation techniques, known to most as torture, insisting he ...

• The Press Association: Teenager's torture gang jailed 2010-03-12

  A gang who kidnapped and tortured a 16-year-old boy have been jailed for 40 years. The teenage victim was kidnapped while walking home in the Harehills ...

• Globe and Mail: Ottawa knew of alternative Afghan prison-transfer plan 2010-03-12

  11, 2010 11:42PM EST The Harper government has always insisted it heard no warnings of torture risks facing Afghan detainees in 2006, but documents ...

• DigitalJournal.com: UK hostage speaks of torture in Iraq 2010-03-12

  A UK man has broken his silence on his time in Iraq as a hostage of a breakaway Shiite militant group. He has revealed details of how h ...

• Zimbabwe Telegraph: PM Tsvangirai launches torture report 2010-03-12

  ZIMBABWE – HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says there can be no national healing without forgiveness and no forgiveness without ...

• Zimbabwe Times: Obama, Clinton honour activist Mukoko 2010-03-12

  The state did not challenge Mukoko's evidence of torture and other violations of constitutional rights. The State submitted an affidavit by the ...

• Hurriyet Daily News: US State Department criticizes Došan tax levy 2010-03-12

  “A number of human-rights observers claimed that only a small percentage of detainees reported torture and abuse because most feared retaliation or believed ...

• Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Judge Sentences Man Who 'Lit the Fuse' That Killed Toddler 2010-03-12

  There was evidence of torture and sexual abuse in both cases, as well. Cheatham, 32, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in November, telling the court that she ...

• Artforum: To Be Continua 2010-03-12

  If you didn't know it was there, you might pass right by its discreet door on the cobblestone street to enter the Museum of Torture and Medieval Criminology ...

• Naharnet: State Department: Torture and Extralegal Intimidation of Journalists 2010-03-12

  The Lebanese government has continued to deny the use of torture, although authorities acknowledged violent abuse sometimes occurred during preliminary ...

• Concord Monitor: Law Center dean retiring 2010-03-12

  During George W. Bush's presidency, Hutson was an outspoken critic of torture, testifying before Congress multiple times and joining several retired ...

• Globe and Mail: Ottawa knew in 2006 NATO was uneasy about detainees 2010-03-12

  12, 2010 11:48AM EST The Harper government has always insisted it heard no warnings of torture risks facing Afghan detainees in 2006, but documents ...

• AFP: US slams rights abuses in China, N.Korea and Iran 2010-03-12

  It cited reports saying both sides "engaged in killings, torture, abuse, violence, politically motivated abductions, and other brutal or humiliating ...

• Yahoo! Tech: Summary Box: China insists Google obey the law 2010-03-12

  Thomas 12 hours ago Report Abuse Leave China, Google...we need to stop doing business with the Chinese as soon as possible. Pay them back and be done ...

2010-03-11: Headlines

• AFP: Myanmar abuse may be crimes against humanity: UN expert 2010-03-11

  Myanmar's "severe human rights abuses" -- including deaths in custody, rape and torture -- were also highlighted in a separate report released Thursday ...

• PEJ News: Court Allows Torture Suit Against Former Defense Sec't Rumsfeld 2010-03-11

  CHICAGO – Federal Judge Wayne R. Andersen issued an historic ruling today allowing a suit charging former Defense Secretary with authorizing torture.

• RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Interview: UN Envoy On Torture Says Concerned About Iran 2010-03-11

  The United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, is concerned not only about reports of torture, but executions of minors as well.

• Democracy Now: UN Rapporteur: Obama Admin Should Probe Torture 2010-03-11

  The United Nations independent expert on torture has criticized the Obama administration for refusing to launch an extensive probe of torture committed ...

• Independent: '24', a diplomatic row and a spy chief's lecture on torture 2010-03-11

  American officials have reacted with dismay to the charge by the former head of MI5 that US authorities deliberately ...

• truthout: In Praise of the Gitmo Bar 2010-03-11

  ... has focused on three core principles: First, the Gitmo Bar fought for humane treatment for all detainees and against torture, cruelty and abuse.

• Granma International: The practice of torture by the United States is a negative influence on the world 2010-03-11

  GENEVA, March 10.—The reaction of the United States and its allies to the September 11, 2001 attacks to intensify the use of torture in their investigati ...

• San Francisco Chronicle: Open Forum: Animal abuse registry is to protect animals 2010-03-11

  It's about stopping someone who has already been convicted of felony animal abuse from again torturing, sexually abusing or intentionally killing animals.

• Reuters AlertNet: FACTBOX-US paints grim picture of global human rights 2010-03-11

  In Tibet, the report said, Chinese authorities committed extrajudicial killings, torture and arbitrary arrests. The report said Iran's poor human right ...

• Reuters South Africa: US raises rights concerns in Russian North Caucasus 2010-03-11

  Local government and insurgent forces reportedly engaged in killing, torture, abuse, politically motivated abductions, and other brutal or humiliating ...

• Pakistan Observer: SC orders torture cells closure 2010-03-11

  Islamabad—The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the closure of torture cells run by the police in private houses. The court issued the directive ...

• Inter Press Service: EGYPT: UN Slams Abuse of Emergency Law 2010-03-11

  Important recommendations accepted by Egypt include ensuring that the definition of torture in Egyptian law conforms with international law, the repeal ...

• Moroccan American News Source: Morocco: US Department of State 2009 Human Rights Practices 2010-03-11

  The students' appeal included evidence alleging that security forces employed torture, sexual harassment, and other abuse, especially during their arrest ...

• Morning Star Online: Chilling lines on torture 2010-03-11

  The title poem of George Szirtes's new collection The Burning Of The Books (Bloodaxe, £8.95) refers to the 1933 nazi book burnings and all ...

• Daily Mail: PETER OBORNE: For years I've been a passionate admirer of the U.S. But recent ... 2010-03-11

  Dame Elizabeth shockingly disclosed that US officials had deceived Britain over their use of torture following their capture of the Al Qaeda commander ...

• Morning Star Online: US 'hid torture from MI5' 2010-03-11

  Intelligence agencies in the US deliberately concealed torture of terror suspects, the former head of MI5 has claimed.

• Yorkshire Post: Boy torture gang jailed for total of 40 years 2010-03-11

  A GANG who abducted a schoolboy and tortured him with a hot steam iron have been jailed for a total of 40 years as a judge branded it ...

• This is London: Spy probe MP condemns Gordon Brown's torture 'excuses' 2010-03-11

  Gordon Brown today faced a revolt by the committee of parliamentarians that oversees Britain's spy services for delaying an investigation into the handling ...

• The Nation, Pakistan: SC takes up police torture case today 2010-03-11

  ISLAMABAD - A three-member bench of the Supreme Court is taking up police torture case here today (Thursday). Earlier, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad ...

• Las Vegas Sun: UK justices to hear detainees' torture appeal 2010-03-11

  AP Lawyers for six former Guantanamo detainees on Monday launched an appeal against a ruling that the British government can use secret evidence to fight ...

• Las Vegas Sun: UK justices hear detainees' torture appeal 2010-03-11

  AP Lawyers for six former Guantanamo detainees on Monday appealed a ruling that the British government can use secret evidence to fight a claim that it w ...

• Pak Watan: SC hears police torture case 2010-03-11

  ISLAMABAD, A bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Javed Iqbal heard suo moto case against police torture here on Thursday.

• Jimma Times: Arrests and unlawful killings in Ethiopia: Annual Human Rights Report 2010-03-11

  Human rights abuses reported during the year included unlawful killings, torture, beating, abuse and mistreatment of detainees and opposition supporters ...

• Go Jamaica: US Human Rights Report on Police killings 2010-03-11

  The report said while the law prohibits torture or other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment, reports of abuse of prisoners by guards continued.

• Jimma Times: Unlawful killings and torture in Eritrea - Annual Human Rights Report 2010-03-11

  Female genital mutilation (FGM) was widespread, and societal abuse and discrimination against women, members of the Kunama ethnic group, homosexual ...

• Yonhap News: N. Korea's human rights record remains deplorable: State Dept. 2010-03-11

  Rape, domestic violence, and child abuse also remained "serious problems," it said, citing 12132 cases of domestic violence.

• The Copenhagen Post: UN: Denmark example on torture 2010-03-11

  Denmark's track record on human rights has traditionally been one of the world's best and a UN expert once again confirmed that fact, indicating that ...

• Jimma Times: Assassinations and suicide bombings in Somalia: Annual Human Rights Report 2010-03-11

  Human rights abuses included unlawful and politically motivated killings; kidnappings; torture, rape, amputations, and beatings; official impunity;

• Irish Independent: The danger lurking at home 2010-03-11

  When it happens on the web, there is no one there to police it; and there is the additional torture that the nasty comments do not disappear into the ether ...

• The News International: Police torture 2010-03-11

  The policemen lashing citizens in public have shamed the whole nation. It is a fact that the police all over the country resort to torture as a matter ...

• AFP: US slams rights abuses in China, NKorea and Iran 2010-03-11

  It cited reports in which both sides "engaged in killings, torture, abuse, violence, politically motivated abductions, and other brutal or humiliating ...

• Iranian: Iran: Trial in Torture Deaths Begins 2010-03-11

  Twelve suspects accused of torturing to death three anti-government protesters during the widespread turmoil after the June presidential election went ...

• The Media Co-op: Conservatives revive Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement 2010-03-11

  At least 114 Indigenous people were murdered last year, while thousands more were subject to threats, abuse, torture and displacement.

• NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan: Afghan Courts: Linking Tribal Systems to the National System 2010-03-11

  Prisoners are consistently subject to torture and police frequently rape female and male detainees” (from the section entitled “The Problems Facing 40000 ...

• The San Francisco Appeal: Group Calls For Impeachment Of SF Judge Over Torture Memo 2010-03-11

  by Bay City News About 15 or 20 people gathered outside the James Browning Courthouse with signs and fliers to protest the appearance of Jay Bybee ...

• Middle East Online: Complicity in Torture 2010-03-11

  It seems the concerns of British sovereignty do not feature high on Miliband's list of priorities. If they did we could expect that, instead of pushing ...

• First Coast News: Abuse Allegations Spurs Investigation of Dozier School for Boys 2010-03-11

  As a result of media attention from the ceremony, nearly 100 former students came forward to tell their tales of abuse and torture. The former students told ...

• New Baltimore Voice Newspapers: A false sense of security? Child abuse appears to be declining, but bad ... 2010-03-11

  Sarah Richard and Sally Straffon of the St. Clair County Child Abuse and Neglect Council in Port Huron. Richard is the forensic interviewer for ...

• DAWN.com: Unmitigable torture 2010-03-11

  A long process of reorientation will be needed before the Pakistani police can learn to recognise the person in their custody as a fellow hum ...

• Australia.TO: Legislation to prohibit torture and the death penalty 2010-03-11

  Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, today welcomed the passage of legislation through Parliament which prohibits the use of torture and ensures that ...

• TODAYonline: M'sian prince gets $2.5m in defamation suit 2010-03-11

  She also made graphic allegations of physical torture. The prince subsequently filed a defamation suit against Ms Manohara and her mother.

• China Post: Malaysia slander suit: prince awarded $1.8 million 2010-03-11

  She also made graphic allegations of physical torture during their marriage. The prince subsequently filed a defamation suit against Pinot and her mother ...

• The Desert Sun: State Animal Abuse Registry Considered 2010-03-11

  Murders and criminals convicted of abuse and violence had pasts of animal torture as children and teens. Now the state of California and 16th district ...

• Maryville Daily Times: A little help navigating the treacherous waters of home decor 2010-03-11

  Not because we're intentionally trying to annoy you, but because we're enduring torture along the lines of Abu Ghraib, and we seek relief any way we can ...

• Abugidainfo: Aid money for weapons abuse … - By Yegonchaw 2010-03-11

  Aid money for weapons abuse, dirty old tricks of Mr.Zenawi, the 'naive WESTERN donors' and the 'negative net benefits' of Mr.Geldof's BandAid legacy ...

• FederalNewsRadio.com: Press group: 8 reporters kidnapped in Mexican city 2010-03-11

  It said one died of apparent torture, two were released alive and five remain missing. "The Mexican government must act with urgency and with due force ...

• CPJ Press Freedom Online: Egyptian blogger Abbas, cleared once, is convicted anew 2010-03-11

  Abbas has been among the leading voices in an anti-torture campaign in Egypt , posting a number of videos on his blog that revealed abuse of people ...

• Dominican Today: As Haiti quake news wanes, Dominicans again feel Washington's whip 2010-03-11

  It denounces police corruption and its practices, from murders to cases of torture, discrimination and violence against Haitian women and immigrant ...

• Herald Sun: Teen to pay prince over rape claims 2010-03-11

  ... 18, slipped away from the prince's retinue during a stay in Singapore and returned to her family in Indonesia with tales of abuse, rape and torture.

• Ahora.cu: US Economic, Financial, and Commercial Blockade against Cuba is a Torture 2010-03-11

  By Prensa Latina / redaccion@ahora.cu / Thursday, 11 March 2010 09:37 Spanish singer Miguel Bosse described the US economic, financial, and commercial ...

• Amarillo.com: Letter: Thornberry misses mark on torture issue 2010-03-11

  It's apparent that the purpose of Rep. Mac Thornberry's guest column (Other Opinion, March 7) is to offer excuses for US-sanctioned torture.

• DAWN.com: SC orders closure of police torture cells 2010-03-11

  After numerous cases reporting police brutality, the footage of Chiniot police has caused the Supreme Court to order the closure of police torture cells ...

• India Today: Ex-Maoists allege rape in camps by colleagues 2010-03-11

  Instances of rape and sexual torture in Naxalite camps are coming to the fore with more and more disillusioned members deserting the CPI (Maoist).

• Muse: Who dunnit? 2010-03-11

  The photos and passport information on 26 people suspected by the Dubai police to have a hand in the killing has been made public, and Interpol has released ...

• WTEN: Investigators: Strong link between animal abuse and domestic violence 2010-03-11

  Investigators say animal abuse is commonly linked to domestic violence. They say animal torture becomes a way to control human victims.

• Gawker: Bush, Cheney, Inspired to Torture by Watching 24 2010-03-11

  The former head of Britain's intelligence service says that the three-headed monster known as Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld fetishized, and were inspired ...

• KTLA: Do You Know Me? Prosecutor Fears Rodney Alcala May Have More Victims 2010-03-11

  Alcala was sentenced to death this week for the murders of 12-year old Robin Samsoe and the sexual assault, torture and strangulations of four Los Angele ...