Torture News

World War 4 Report: "Plan Mexico" dies with Iraq funding bill ëfor now 2008-05-16

"Aid for Mexico must not be a blank check for Mexican security forces that have been implicated in crimes like rape and torture ," said Larry Cox ...

Washington Post: Torture's Blowback 2008-05-16

In either case, Mr. Qahtani's experience shows that the horrors portrayed in the photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, which have so deeply damaged U ...

Calcutta Telegraph: Event: Paintings by well-known artists When: Till May 18; 12 no ... 2008-05-16

Till May 19 (except Sunday) at Boi-Chitra, College Street Coffee House, 2nd floor, #2241 6845: 3 pm - 7.30 pm: Torture , Protest, Peace ë an exhibition ...

Nashua Telegraph: Prosecutors say torture suspect lied 2008-05-16

By ANDREW WOLFE Staff Writer NASHUA ê A city woman accused of torturing her daughter was yanking the court's chain by claiming she was incapacitated ...

KFOXtv.com: Torture Victim Testifies In Las Cruces Trial 2008-05-16

LAS CRUCES, NM -- It was an emotional day for one victim. The owner of the home invaded in November of 2005 testified she thought her captors would kill her ...

Pioneer Press Online: BEFORE THE RAINS 2008-05-16

A documentary on the American soldiers associated with the notorious photographs demonstrating abuse of prisoners in the Abu Ghraib military prison.

Las Cruces Sun-News: Robles guilty on 17 counts in torture trial 2008-05-16

By Jose L. Medina/Sun-News reporter LAS CRUCES ë An Alamogordo man on Thursday was found guilty of 17 of 23 counts for his role in the kidnapping, torture ...

KIDK: Nate Eaton Investigates: Escaping Polygamy Part I 2008-05-16

He wanted to know if she believes the allegations of abuse are really happening within her former faith. Some of Carolyn's relatives live in Eastern Idaho.

New York Times: See How They Run 2008-05-16

... but acquiesced to an appallingly cynical deal that exempted the intelligence agencies from a ban on the torture , abuse and humiliation of detainees.

TV Squad: Ugly Betty: The Kids Are Alright 2008-05-16

Hilda pursued Coach Diaz, Gio pursued Betty, and Marc and Amanda did what they do best-- torture Betty. The "Betty Whorez" e-mail was one of those small Mode ...

Khaleej Times: Politics versus ethics 2008-05-16

What we are faced with is a mighty military power that circulates misleading information in order to launch wars and torture people without being brought ...

AssamNet: [Assam] Aziz Ul-Haque [message #3693] 2008-05-16

These factors lead to domestic violence, particularly against women, manifesting in broken homes, divorce, molestation, wife-beating, torture , dowry ...

Awareness Times: íDeath Penalty Must Remain,ì- Dr. Nahim of Sierrra Leone 2008-05-16

These he said include direct victims of torture during the war and the perpetrators themselves. The reason for this he went on is that these set of people ...

Truthdig: The Face of Torture 2008-05-15

By Marie Cocco WASHINGTONëFor weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when images of twisted metal and smoldering debris still filled television screen ...

Dissident Voice: Torture: A Bully"s Creed 2008-05-15

by Reza Fiyouzat / May 15th, 2008 For the past seven years ë and especially since those ghastly pictures from your friendly security providers at Baghram ...

guardian.co.uk: 'I said to Klaus Barbie: I want people to see your human side' 2008-05-15

If the Americans had reflected on the moral defeat that torture represented for the French army in Algeria, what has gone on at Abu Ghraib would certainly ...

The Zimbabwean: Medical Foundation Statement in Support of the Torture Damages Bill 2008-05-15

íJustice is telling the world. Everyone should know. I want to look at them [perpetrators] in the eye and say what you did was wrong, find your conscience.

Telegraph.co.uk: An indictment of US torture 2008-05-15

Torture has earned itself a degree of intellectual respectability in recent years. Academics regularly venture ideas about how much violence ideally to use ...

Daily Mail: The everlasting blow dry that promises to tame the hair for ... 2008-05-15

Give me all the abuse you like, just fix my frizz. And so he does. "This product works best on coloured and damaged hair,' he raves, eager to begin.

Brighton Standard-Blade: Justice system has gone to the dogs 2008-05-15

Animal abuse sickens me. I don"t know how anyone can mistreat, torture or starve a poor, defenseless creature. But when the presumptive range of time th ...

OpEdNews: US Holding 51000 Iraqis In Prison, Most Illegally 2008-05-15

íFurther,ì according to Gilmartin, in the Iraq-run prisons there are ícontinuing reports of widespread and routine torture and ill-treatment of detainees.

San Francisco Chronicle: Prince Caspian rides out against tyranny 2008-05-15

As surely as fever in the human body is signified by a high temperature, so abuse of power in Narnia is signified by ominous portents in the heavens.

Detroit Free Press: Kenyan officials should stand trial for torture, rights group says 2008-05-15

By KATHARINE HOURELD • AP • May 15, 2008 NAIROBI, Kenya ë Top military and civilian officials must stand trial for torturing thousands of people ë ...

PRESS TV: UK to probe into Iraqis' torture 2008-05-15

Britain has announced a public inquiry into the torture of Iraqi civilians by UK military forces in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

The Morning News: Madison Unveils Revised Animal Cruelty Measure 2008-05-15

"I think it should be a felony to torture a horse, cat or dog, or to torture any animal more than once," McDaniel said at the annual Arkansas Society ...

WTTE: Adult charges against 2 teens in torture beating, robbery 2008-05-15

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) -- A judge has ordered that two southwest Ohio teens be held on $1 million bond and be tried as adults in the alleged torture attack ...

AsiaNews.it: Three years after the Andijan massacre torture and manhunts continue 2008-05-15

In May 2005 the army shot at unarmed demonstrators, killing hundreds. Since then eyewitnesses have been tortured, made to disappear or forced to íconfessì ...

Seattle Times: Wife tells of Egypt cleric's alleged CIA-linked torture 2008-05-15

By COLLEEN BARRY AP MILAN, Italy ë The wife of an Egyptian cleric taken from a Milan street, allegedly as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program ...

GoErie.com: Specter, English vote for torture 2008-05-15

Thank you for your strong editorial (Erie Times-News, April 23) protesting torture and reminding us that, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act ...

Alamogordo Daily News: Torture trial continues 2008-05-15

LAS CRUCES -- The trial of an Alamogordo man accused of conspiring with two other men to kidnap, torture and kill a Las Cruces family continued Wednesday.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Torture caused deaths of woman, baby 2008-05-15

By Nicholas JC Pistor Two months of torture led to the deaths of a mentally disabled pregnant woman and her unborn boy, a coroner's jury ruled Wednesday.

Redlands Daily Facts: Transient held in cat torture 2008-05-15

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A 24-year-old transient is in jail accused of setting a cat on fire, sparking a small blaze in a dry field, and torturing two other ...

JURIST: Releasing OLC memo would further expose Bush torture policies 2008-05-15

Amrit Singh [Staff attorney, ACLU]: "For almost four years now, the ACLU has been litigating under the Freedom of Information Act for the disclosure ...

New York Times: Italian Trial of CIA Operatives Begins With Torture Testimony 2008-05-15

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL MILAN ë A long-delayed trial of CIA operatives and former top Italian intelligence officials moved forward here on Wednesday ...

Medill Reports: Activists say 'Torture victims remain in prison' 2008-05-15

Activists and family members outside of the James Thompson Center on Wednesday call for new hearings for at least 30 prisoners. by Chaya Harris Michelle ...

The Coast.ca: Youth crime and you 2008-05-15

There are spaces, too, for mandatory core programming in anger management, cognitive skills, substance abuse and education. Just off the common room is ...

World Socialist Web Site: Judge cites conflict of interest in removing official ... 2008-05-15

In 2002, while he was being held in Guantánamo Bay, al-Qahtani was subject to torture at the behest of then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Computerworld: It's a hard-knock life: 3 rugged notebooks take a beating 2008-05-15

Rugged notebooks have had those scenarios engineered out of them, resulting in units that can stand up to daily abuse and come back for more.

Pine Bluff Commercial: Revised animal-cruelty bill headed to Ark. Legislature 2008-05-15

Elements of aggravated cruelty would include torture , prolonged pain, failure to provide sufficient care, or killing the animal "in an especially depraved ...

Pahrump Valley Times: Progress in slow motion 2008-05-15

... his thirties and are a product of the torture and abuse he received as a prisoner of war (little wonder he opposed George Bush's pro- torture policies).

Broward New Times: Black Beans and Rice 2008-05-14

Imagery suggestive of coercion and torture is provided, in very different ways, by Antonio Eiriz and Raúl Cordero, the latter drawing on the British film ...

Straight Goods: End Canadian involvement in torture 2008-05-14

by Matthew Behrens Each week from May 1 to June 26, Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture is asking people across the country to take part in anti-torture ...

San Francisco Chronicle: Tortured law on torture 2008-05-14

Ah yes, those torture confessions have proved so useful. That, at least, was the claim of our president in justifying one of the most egregious assault ...

San Francisco Bay Guardian: Tuesday, May 13th 2008-05-14

The Abu Ghraib story is, among other things, about the unstable, delicate nature of photographic representation. Yet Morris can't resist auteur-stamped ...

The Epoch Times Ireland: Persisting Human Rights Issues Across Asia Linked With China and Trade 2008-05-14

The special rapporteur on torture (of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights), Manfred Nowak, said in his report on China that most of the religiou ...

Pioneer Press: St. Paul man who 'accidentally' threw kitten against wall is charged 2008-05-14

A summit on the link between animal and domestic abuse was held in St. Paul last year, and a coalition began meeting regularly on the subject in January ...

Washington Post: Charges Against 9/11 Suspect Dropped 2008-05-14

In 2005, an official military investigation concluded that Qahtani's interrogation regimen amounted to abuse . Officials close to the case said Crawford' ...

Washington Post: Washington Post Foreign Service 2008-05-14

Nora and I took photos of his injuries at his hospital. We made jokes and teased him like you would on any hospital visit, trying to give the patient ...

Sault Star: Canada knew of Khadr torture plan: documents 2008-05-14

Newly disclosed documents show Canada knew the United States secretly paid Pakistan $500000 to capture Canadian citizen Abdullah Khadr in what his lawyer ...

Pacific Free Press: Lajee: Our Eyes 2008-05-14

The first of the four sections of photos , íA Window to Our Worldì, begins with a full spread photo representing all the elements described above and all ...

Florida Times-Union: Guantanamo: 'Misunderstood by most' 2008-05-14

"If I were asked to abuse , mistreat or torture another human being, I would hang up my uniform and resign," he said. Zanetti acknowledged the 2004 public ...

New York Times: STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE 2008-05-14

Although such passages in íStandard Operating Procedureì help put the actions of the lower-level soldiers who appear in the infamous Abu Ghraib photos ...

New York Times: "Standard Operating Procedure" 2008-05-14

By PHILIP GOUREVITCH and ERROL MORRIS McCotter had not known Abu Ghraib's history or its symbolism when he first admired its possibilities.

The Phoenix: Flash without fire 2008-05-14

It"s an acid satire of the Bush administration"s penchant for redefining terms like í torture ì until they"re meaningless. But books don"t work well in art ...

Al-Bawaba: íBaby Doll Nightì appears in the Cannes Film Festival 2008-05-14

... because the tourists are threatened by terrorists who are led by an ex-prisoner of í Abu Ghraib Prisonì in Iraq. Director Adel Adeeb said that torture ...

Orangeburg Times Democrat: Most stressful shopping trip 2008-05-14

The person who made these mirrors must have a perverse need to torture females, because even if a woman is a size 2, she looks huge and bulgy in dressing ...

Courier Mail: Toddler pram torture charge 2008-05-13

By Sophie Elsworth A 22-year-old Mooloolaba student has been charged with the torture of a two-year-old boy who allegedly fell from a pram on to a busy road ...

Sydney Morning Herald: Torture charge after pram rolled on road 2008-05-13

A man has been charged with the torture of a toddler after the child's pram was rolled onto a busy Sunshine Coast road, police said.

Pakistan Daily: Indian torture of Pakistani citizen act off state sponsored aggression 2008-05-12

Pakistani national Muhammad Akram who died in India, was subjected to severe torture, revealed an initial post-mortem report conducted by Mian Munshi ...

PopPolitics: A Look at Iconic Versus: The Post-9/11 Significance of the Freddy ... 2008-05-12

They both emphasize the abuse of children at the hands of others: In their mortal lives, Freddy used to torture and kill children, while Jason was taunted ...

Glasgow Sunday Mail: A family doctor can be revealed as the owner of sex torture ... 2008-05-11

A FAMILY doctor's bizarre double life as the owner of a sex dungeon can be revealed today. GP Keith McIntyre is the registered owner of a flat where ...

Grimsby Evening Telegraph: Church in saviour siblings dilemma 2008-05-11

"So we condemn rape, torture and blackmail. We don't allow experiments on people's bodies or minds without their consent.

Stabroek News: Through a woman"s eyes 2008-05-11

There are families that abuse , torture and abandon their kids and they get to be pregnant again and again. There are women who drink and smoke and do drug ...

Epoch Times: Soviet Dissident Bukovsky: 'Looking at Russia with Optimism ... 2008-05-11

While in prison, he co-authored A Manual on Psychiatry for Dissidents to help other dissidents fight psychiatric torture . In December 1976, Bukovsky ...

OneWorld US: Guantanamo Cell Tours US 2008-05-10

In May 2006, a UN panel that monitors compliance with the world's anti- torture treaty urged the United States to close the Guantanamo prison and avoid using ...

Panthic Weekly: Highlights from International Sikh Conference (UK) 2008-05-10

PNSD, as does the UN, recognises the critical nexus between the denial of self-determination and the systematic abuse of individual human rights.

Los Angeles Times: Showtime's 'An American Crime,' starring Ellen Page and Catherine ... 2008-05-10

As a story of child abuse , it's too sensational and aberrational to shed much light on the more commonplace -- to use an unfortunately apt word -- instance ...

NBC 11.com: Technology Helps Filmmaker Tell Story Behind Abu Ghraib 2008-05-10

Morris' movie explores the events surrounding the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal. The movie stars Christopher Bradley, Sarah Denning ...

Stabroek News: Best vows to keep violence out of army recruit training 2008-05-10

Several allegations of torture were recently made by some soldiers during investigations into a missing army weapon and a report on the investigation of ...