Human Rights | Torture News

2010-03-17: Headlines

• Independent: Abducted. Raped. Married. Can Ethiopia's wives ever break free? 2010-03-17

  Critics of the regime and opposition politicians vanish into torture-jails and emerge lame and silent years later. There has been an exodus of Ethiopi ...

• Independent: Arifa Akbar: Hooray for miserable writers 2010-03-17

  ... in which he recalled the abuse suffered at the hands of his alcoholic mother, and Constance Briscoe's litany of domestic torture as a child ...

• Amnesty International USA: Legal loopholes allow European companies to trade in 'tools of torture' 2010-03-17

  European companies are participating in the global trade in types of equipment widely used in torture or other ill-treatment, according to evidence ...

• Peace fm Online: Let's respect human rights - Tweneboa-Kodua 2010-03-17

  ... focused on individual civil and political rights in order to guarantee fair trials, the right to vote and freedom from torture and abuse.

• World Socialist Web Site: The crisis of American filmmaking & cultural life 2010-03-17

  We don't (or we try not to) heap abuse, on the pages of the WSWS, on the artists who fall short, even those who fall very far short.

• The Epoch Times: News Analysis: The Use and Abuse of Confucius by Today's China 2010-03-17

  In 2004 Ms. Chen had a civil suit filed against her in a Tanzanian court; it accused her of torture and extra judicial killing while carrying out ...

• InTheNews.co.uk: Torture tools trade 'persisting across Europe', says Amnesty 2010-03-17

  Tools used during torture such as electric shock devices and wall restraints are being traded across Europe, a report by Amnesty ...

• rabble.ca: Harper's hitlist: Watchdogs muzzled and kept on chains 2010-03-17

  Its principal focus has been on the torture scandal surrounding the handover of Canadian-captured Afghan detainees to the Afghan security force ...

• Lew Rockwell: Career Opportunities in the Torture State 2010-03-17

  The White House, at the initiative of Vice President Cheney, had secretly ordered the use of torture against suspected terrorists and other detainee ...

• San Antonio Express: Alleged sex-trade victim vanishes 2010-03-17

  “When you hear what happens to these kids, it fits every definition of torture.” Habitual teen runaways are at particularly high risk of becoming victims ...

• Financial Times: Amnesty attacks 'torture' exports 2010-03-17

  Germany and the Czech Republic are among a number of countries which are allowing the export of weapons that can be used in torture ...

• Globe and Mail: Canada broke pledges on Afghan jails, letters show 2010-03-17

  Abu Ghraib, the US-run prison in Iraq where US soldiers were photographed humiliating and abusing prisons was very fresh at the time Ottawa opted to turn ...

2010-03-16: Headlines

• Lake County Record-Bee: Trial date set for torture case 2010-03-16

  LAKEPORT -- A Lake County Superior Court judge set the trial date Monday for two Sonoma County men charged with attempted ...

• insideTORONTO.com: Shelter struggles to secure funding as the demand for services grows 2010-03-16

  Alone and in fear, Veronica endured months of torture and threats on her life. All she thought of was escaping to a shelter, but if she ever uttered a word ...

• AllAfrica.com: Congo-Kinshasa: ICC Prosecutors Will Refute Allegations That Intermediarie ... 2010-03-16

  You [could] have a generation of Congolese whose way of life is to rape and kill and maim and torture. That is a huge crime. And this is what he is going ...

• Daily Kos: Obama Issues Veto Threats Over Intelligence Oversight During Sunshine Week 2010-03-16

  From the torture photos to the private deal brokered with PhRMA in the health reform negotiations, the Obama administration has done a piss poor job on ...

• Firedoglake: Rendering Opinions on Rendering Detainees out of Iraq 2010-03-16

  But I do know that the draft opinion could not have been relied upon to abuse anyone, not only because it was never finalized, but more importantly ...

• Firedoglake: UK/US Asylum Seekers Find Death, Abuse, and Criminal Indifference 2010-03-16

  An article in the March 14 UK Observer reports that United Kingdom's asylum immigration system is systematically denying claims of torture by asylum ...

• Firedoglake: CIA Has No Idea What It Briefed Congress on Torture 2010-03-16

  The CIA documents released in the latest FOIA batch prove that all the claims that CIA (and Crazy Pete Hoekstra) have made about briefings Congress received ...

• ILW.com: SECRETARY SOLIS ANNOUNCES THE DEPARTMENT TO EXERCISE ITS AUTHORITY TO CERTIFY ... 2010-03-16

  Victims of qualifying criminal activities who have suffered substantial physical or mental abuse may apply for a U Visa if they are willing to assist law ...

• The Guardian: Guardian/ICM survey: unpopularity poll 2010-03-16

  ... complicit in torture , in debt up to our necks, the prisons overflowing and little done on the causes of crime , a loss of skilled and talented people ...

• Huffington Post: Unsung Hero 2010-03-16

  But the memory of his torture never left. The scars were too vivid, too painful. He fought the terror. He tried to trust. He tried to build a life.

• Huffington Post: Shadow Prisoners 2010-03-16

  And then there are those horrifying photographs of US soldiers abusing prisoners held at the Iraqi prison in Abu Ghraib. The Obama administration is ...

• Huffington Post: Lawfare Conference Takes Aim at Terrorists' Efforts to Wage "Legal Jihad" 2010-03-16

  Claims of abuse or torture by terrorists are often problematic because terrorists, as a result of their personal psychology, often see themselves as victim ...

• Beyond Chron: Panel to Review Torture Memo Author's Anti-Rent Control Ruling - Mar 16 2010-03-16

  Torture memo author Jay S. Bybee, now a federal judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal ...

• Monthly Review: The Iran Threat in the Age of Real-Axis-of-Evil Expansion 2010-03-16

  According to a former CIA analyst on Iran, SAVAK was instructed in torture techniques by the [CIA]. Amnesty International summed up the situation in 1976 ...

• Collective Bellaciao: Europe Attacks Kurds 2010-03-16

  Kurdish political captives in Diyarbakir became targets of continuous insult and abuse and were subjected to daily and systematic beating and torture ...

• Granma International: Just press the button and see 2010-03-16

  According to authorized studies, what was uncovered in the photographs taken at Abu Ghraib prison after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, had already been put ...

• The People's Voice: America's Secret Prisons 2010-03-16

  Americans respond accordingly, rounding up suspects, mostly innocent civilians, and detaining them for interrogations, torture, abuse and degrading ...

• rabble.ca: Dr. Sherene Razack on 'Reflections on Torture at Abu Ghraib' 2010-03-16

  By Stark Raven Media Collective Dr. Razack explores how many contemporary discussions of torture that take place as critique, rely up ...

• Boston Globe: US transfers prison to Iraqi control 2010-03-16

  And the scandal following the release of photos showing American troops mistreating detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison sparked outrage across Iraq and ...

• Military Technologies: Non-Lethal Weapons Change Warfare 2010-03-16

  After all, there is no shortage of objects that can be used as instruments of torture. The effectiveness of nonlethal weapons reducing noncombatant death ...

• The Press Association: Murder hunt after attack on human rights lawyer 2010-03-16

  Mr Abdel Salam, originally from Sudan and who worked for Redress, a charity helping torture victims, was pronounced dead at the scene on Saturday.

• Kyiv Post: The US Department of State 2009 Human Rights Report: situation in Ukraine 2010-03-16

  Human rights problems in Ukraine enlightened in the report included serious police abuse, beatings, and torture of detainees and prisoners; harsh conditi ...

• UK Express: KNIFEMAN MURDERS ANTI-TORTURE LAWYER 2010-03-16

  A LEADING human rights lawyer has been stabbed to death on the doorstep of his home. Abdel Salam Hassan suffered multiple knife wounds as he ...

• The Moscow Times: Kalinin, Architect of the Prison System, Is Fired 2010-03-16

  In 2008, leading human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov was charged with slander for calling Kalinin "the author of a sadistic system of torture" who w ...

• Business Times: China: where your rights are protected - in theory 2010-03-16

  The human rights report talks about extrajudicial killings, executions without due process, torture and coerced confessions of prisoners and the use ...

• TVNZ: NZ human rights record under scrutiny at UN 2010-03-16

  ... against children and young people, electoral finance reform and the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT).

• ThisDay: US Congress passes new law against albinos torture, killings 2010-03-16

  ... Connolly urged his colleagues "to join me and Mariamu Stanford in bringing international attention to this horrific abuse of human rights.

• Los Angeles Times: How Mexico gets it wrong 2010-03-16

  It also expressed concern about the continued presence of torture and the increasing use of arbitrary pretrial detention as a strategy to combat crime.

• Washington Post: The great Catholic cover-up 2010-03-16

  This is common or garden stuff, very familiar to American and Australian and Irish Catholics whose children's rape and torture, and the cover-up of same ...

• Mirror.co.uk: Knife death of torture ban lawyer 2010-03-16

  A leading lawyer for a British-based anti-torture group has been stabbed to death in his home, it emerged yesterday.

• Mirror.co.uk: Knife death of anti-torture group lawyer 2010-03-16

  A leading lawyer for a British-based anti-torture group has been stabbed to death in his home, it emerged yesterday.

• Raw Story: Protecting agencies from oversight, Obama threatens to veto intelligence funding 2010-03-16

  I see that the "Abuse of Power" continues un-abated. Should we classify Torture as a Drug? That may be the only way to get it prosecuted.

• Raw Story: Obama agencies invoking secrecy provision more often than under Bush 2010-03-16

  On torture photos, there are almost too many instances to mention. But Obama has denied court requests, ACLU requests, CREW requests, and requests ...

• Irish Independent: Victims recall horror of abuse and call on prelate to resign his post 2010-03-16

  The legacy of pain and torture is the same. To say it happened 35 years ago doesn't hold with me or the two girls in the ground. "If he (Cardinal Brady) ...

• Scoop.co.nz: The Right to Choose: Zapata Tamayo 2010-03-16

  And it is force-feeding that constitutes the link with coercion and torture. The issue of the fasting prisoner's consent is, he holds, “...a key factor ...

• Washington Post: The politics of health care passage 2010-03-16

  We need to first get rid of all corruption, abuse and outright theft in our existing government health care programs so that people like your son who truly ...

• Washington Post: Greatest Show on Earth 2010-03-16

  I attended much of the trial; at times Judge Sullivan recoiled and looked away from videos and photos documenting how Ringling handlers and trainers tre ...

• Washington Post: Does universal coverage reduce abortion? 2010-03-16

  That detainees may have been given over to Afghanistan with implicit knowledge that the Afghans would torture them is hugely controversial in Canada and may ...

• Daily Mail: Ministers will have the final say on whether spies can torture 2010-03-16

  Spelling out where ministers have responsibility for life or death decisions will give the agencies more protection against claims of abuse and ensure th ...

• First Post: Hostage Peter Moore has to defend torture claims 2010-03-16

  Peter Moore, the British IT consultant held hostage by Iraqi Shia extremists for nearly three years, has been forced to defend his account ...

• Nouse: Torture: the shady secrets of MI5 2010-03-16

  Torture is an emotive and controversial subject. It cannot fail to provoke a response, so it is no surprise that the Court of Appeal's recent ruling in ...

• San Jose Mercury News: 2 held in torture, death of 16-year-old SoCal girl 2010-03-16

  AP MORENO VALLEY, Calif.—Two men are on trial in Riverside County for allegedly killing and burning a teenage runaway girl they feared was pregnant.

• New Vision: UWA denies torture chambers 2010-03-16

  THE Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) last week clashed with herdsmen in Nyabushozi, Kiruhura district over reportedly owning torture chamber ...

• Houston Chronicle: Photos from Juarez, Acapulco 2010-03-16

  The bodies bore signs of torture and multiple gunshot wounds. They were found beneath an SUV that was apparently used to crush them.

• BU Today: On campus: Triples can be the most unstable housing unit 2010-03-16

  It sounds like a form of medieval torture, yet universities across the country offer triples as a viable housing option. Boston University has an entire ...

• ARNnet: Did Uncle Sam try to kill Wikileaks? 2010-03-16

  In other words, Wikileaks produced a 238-page torture manual used by the US Army at Guantanamo Bay, a map of the Abu Ghraib secret prison in Iraq ...

• AndersonValleyPost.com: Cottonwood woman accused of torture due at preliminary hearing Thursday 2010-03-16

  Her brother, Gregory Limon, 22, is charged with child abuse, being an accessory and obstructing or delaying an officer. They were arrested on Dec.

• Queens Courier: Beaten puppy on the mend 2010-03-16

  “People who go through the trouble to torture and create suffering may be doing it to human victims, too.” Rhonda Windham, an anti-cruelty veterinarian ...

• KTLA: 4 Missing Women May Be Among Alcala's Photos 2010-03-16

  Alcala was sentenced to death last week for the murder of Robin Samsoe and the sexual assault, torture and murder of four Los Angeles County women between ...

• AFP: Contestants turn torturers in French TV experiment 2010-03-16

  One contestant interviewed afterwards said she went along with the torture despite knowing that her own grandparents were Jews who had been persecuted ...

• The Chosun Ilbo: N.Korean Security Turns to Sexual Abuse, Seduction 2010-03-16

  North Korean security agents specialize in torture techniques using needles, water and electric shocks, but recently, sexual abuse is said to have become ...

• Big Journalism: Detroit News Hearts Publik Edukashun, Smears Homeschoolers 2010-03-16

  The teen was “homeschooled” by her father and stepmother, Anthony and Marsha Springer, who were eventually convicted of torture and child abuse.

• Ghana Broadcasting Corporation: IGP cautions against abuse of suspects 2010-03-16

  The Inspector General of Police, (IGP) Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye, has asked station officers not to instigate or tolerate any act of torture, cruelty ...

• Natural News.com: One Million UK Patients Addicted to Prescription Drugs 2010-03-16

  It was indescribable torture," he said. Nine months later, he is still unable to work. "I am still terrified of going outside, I can't think straight ...

• Irish Times: Call for Cardinal Brady to step down over Brendan Smyth inquiry 2010-03-16

  The next four years of torture and hell was completely avoidable, and wouldn't have happened if he had done what he was supposed to do and protect children ...

• Pakenham Cardinia Leader: HAVE YOUR SAY: Buckjumping 'torture' for Shetland ponies 2010-03-16

  A SHETLAND pony buckjumping event planned as a highlight of this Saturday's Cockatoo Rodeo has run into a storm of protest. Rodeo organisers plan to use ...

• Metal Underground: Kreetur Offering "King Of Torture" Demo As Free Download 2010-03-16

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• Independent Online: Mom performed gruesome sexual acts on girl 2010-03-16

  Frankly, if it were up to me, I'd implement every form of torture I could read up on since before world war one, and use modern techniques to keep them ...

• Adelaidenow: Murray talk turns to water torture 2010-03-16

  The Australian Conservation Foundation plans to buy 200 million litres of water for use in north-west Vic. SOUTH Australia will get at least 400 billi ...

• RadioVop: Tsvangira Hears First Hand Reports Of Violence 2010-03-16

  Mukoko is herself a victim of violence following her abduction, torture and unlawful detention last year. Villagers told Tsvangirai they were being ...

• RadioVop: Tsvangirai Hears First Hand Reports Of Violence 2010-03-16

  Mukoko is herself a victim of violence following her abduction, torture and unlawful detention last year. Villagers told Tsvangirai they were being ...

• Ottawa Citizen: A light on dark places 2010-03-16

  Those obtained through Access to Information have been liberally blacked out, with references to torture and abuse removed.

• DAWN.com: Labour leader accuses contractors of torture 2010-03-16

  He said that his captors took him to an undisclosed place and tortured him mercilessly. — Dawn photo SUKKUR: A thin cord of thread ...

• New York Times: How the Midmajors Reel In Those Stars 2010-03-16

  More Photos » Stay on top of all the news, on and off the court, on The Times's college sports blog. AP and Coaches Poll AP and Coaches Poll Too many time ...

• Sydney Morning Herald: Torture not just cruel for cats 2010-03-16

  On Friday night, some sadistic halfwit in the Perth suburb of Bassendean trod on the tail of a two-year-old cat. As the poor creature struggled to free ...

• SW Radio Africa: Detained Zim asylum seeker starts hunger strike in UK 2010-03-16

  She is also protesting the prolonged detention she has had to endure despite independent verification of the torture she suffered in Zimbabwe.

• Chicago Sun-Times: Judge: Burge can't use dead cops' testimony in police-torture case 2010-03-16

  A federal judge has decided not to let former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge offer the past testimony of two dead cops in h ...

• expressandstar.com: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 2010-03-16

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

• Leagle.com: HUMPHREYS v. STATE 2010-03-16

  Whether to strike a juror for cause is within the discretion of the trial court and the trial court's rulings are proper absent some manifest abuse ...

• IceNews: Icelandic psychiatrist voted vice chair of Europe torture committee 2010-03-16

  The Council of Europe's European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) elected last week its new ...

• Valley News: Doctor testifies teenage runaway was stabbed 133 times 2010-03-16

  Roman Gabriel Aldana, 22, and Jose Alfredo Solorza, 18, are both charged with first-degree murder and a sentence-enhancing allegation of inflicting torture.

• The Tech Herald: Source: Torture not hacking led to the Iranian takedown of hra-iran.org 2010-03-16

  It was about 7:30 pm EST when our cell phone used for security news rang. On the line was Ahmad-Batbi, a spokesman ...

• Toronto Sun: MP wants laws against enabling torture 2010-03-16

  OTTAWA — An NDP MP wants new laws to ensure Canadian officials don't participate in or enable torture abroad.

• Across the Aisle: A Chip Off the Old Blockhead 2010-03-16

  Ten years ago, if you labeled someone a terrorist, he had an Eighth Amendment right to be free from torture, since the very idea of “cruel and unusual ...

• The Concordian: Palestinian teen befriends soldier in captivating play 2010-03-16

  The two are in a tent for the remainder of the play and Mercer is being questioned about the torture and death of a young Arab.

• Wonkette: I'm Worth a Million In Prizes With My Torture Film, Drive a GTO, Wear ... 2010-03-16

  Nancy Pelosi's new idea is for the House to pass the Senate's health-care reform by not voting for it. [Washington Post] America's remaining employed people ...

• San Luis Obispo Tribune: China says missing lawyer sentenced for subversion 2010-03-16

  A UN torture investigator said last week he was very concerned about Gao's fate. Reader comments on SanLuisObispo.com are the opinions of the writer ...

• Liberian Daily Observer: Judiciary, Police Corrupt, Ineffective 2010-03-16

  According to the State Department, there were no reports of politically motivated disappearances, torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment ...

• Episcopal-Life: Zimbabwe Anglican Jestina Mukoko honored by US Department of State for hum ... 2010-03-16

  Her bravery in calling to account those responsible for her abduction and torture, as well as her insistence on continuing her role as head of ZPP ...

• The Northwest Florida Daily News: PHOTOS BY A SERIAL KILLER: Police seek public's help to ID missing persons 2010-03-16

  Before he could be tried a third time in Samsoe's murder, Alcala was linked by DNA evidence to the torture slayings of Jill Barcomb, 18, of Oneida, NY ...

• Party for Socialism and Liberation: Death of prisoner used in new political assault on Cuba 2010-03-16

  The US is notorious for its torturous practices such as prolonged isolation, torture and murder in domestic and military prisons including Abu Ghraib ...

• Voltaire Network: CIA: What Really Happened in the quiet French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit 2010-03-16

  Torture is now supported in the United States by a large segment of the population. Some well thinking Americans say that they pray for a return “to ...

• Straight.com: Natasha Patterson: Struggle for women's equality continues around the world 2010-03-16

  Homosexuality is still illegal in 77 countries and can lead to imprisonment, torture, and even execution. Economically, women are still disadvantaged ...

• The Concordian: Torture allegations bring security service integrity into question 2010-03-16

  By Alizeh Haque Opposition leaders' tempers flared during question period in Parliament last week as Liberal party leader Michael Ignatieff accused Prime ...

2010-03-15: Headlines

• AllAfrica.com: Uganda: Tales of Torture and Death in Country's Torture Centres 2010-03-15

  The March 11 country human rights report released by the American government faults the Ugandan government in at least 18 areas of serious human right ...

• Latin American Herald Tribune: Colombian Says He Was Tortured by Police in Bolivia 2010-03-15

  The Colombian and his wife went to the Colombian Embassy and the Ombudsman's Office to complain about the police abuse and to ask for help ...

• Independent: Gordon Brown leads funeral tributes to Michael Foot 2010-03-15

  I thought even if he won he would be submitting himself to endless torture." Mr Foot was indeed subjected to "agonies", he said.

• Tapped: Let's Talk About Detainee Operations In Iraq. 2010-03-15

  Let's look to the man who actually reformed detainee operations in Iraq after Abu Ghraib, and what he thinks about such methods, Marine Gen.

• Bay Area Indymedia: freedom from our social prisons requires a Rights Revolution 2010-03-15

  It is all about hiding the truth but the high profile torture camps could not be hidden. How can anyone have confidence in State statistics when the State ...

• Bay Area Indymedia: STATE TERRORISM AND MILITARY BRUTALITY IN THE PHILIPPINES MEETS WORLDWIDE ... 2010-03-15

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

• Firedoglake: The Torture Apologists Ratchet Up the Attack 2010-03-15

  You know how the Moonie Times let go almost all of its “journalists” last year? Well, apparently they haven't let go of their CIA mouthpiece (not a surprise ...

• Firedoglake: Stone, Bacon And Other Friends-of-Petraeus Against Torture 2010-03-15

  So what brought Mr. AQI to Iraq? At the mosque, he met a man who could tell Mr. AQI just wanted to belong to something. That man told Mr. AQI he ...

• The Guardian: Police investigate Sudan links in rights lawyer's killing 2010-03-15

  Detectives investigating the murder of a respected human rights lawyer are looking into whether there are links between his work helping torture victims ...

• The Guardian: Kidnappers deny torture of British hostage Peter Moore 2010-03-15

  An Iraqi Shia group blamed for holding hostage the British IT consultant Peter Moore today denied his claims of torture and abuse and released new video ...

• The Guardian: MPs step up demands for inquiry into MI5 torture claims 2010-03-15

  The ISC has been criticised for its failure to unearth MI5's co-operation with the CIA over the alleged abuse of Binyam Mohamed in secret jails.

• The Guardian: MI5 and torture 2010-03-15

  As those in the audience can testify, I said last Tuesday that I did not know exactly what had been done specifically to Khalid Sheik Mohammed until after I ...

• truthout: Torture and the Imperial Presidency 2010-03-15

  The strategy targeted civilians for assassination, torture, and other forms of abuse that were designed to terrorize Vietnamese civilians into submission ...

• truthout: This Time It's Pregnant Women: Another American Atrocity in the Bush-Obama War ... 2010-03-15

  Sabir said he was shown photos of a man who had been at the party, a certain Shamsuddin. Sabir said he told the interrogator, "Yes, he was at the party.

• Asian Centre for Human Rights: Army asked to pay compensation for torture of innocents in Assam 2010-03-15

  New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the order of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that directed the Ministry ...

• International News Network: US report offers damning picture of human rights abuses in Afghanistan - Online 2010-03-15

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

• Canada Views: Marston tables Prevention of Torture Act 2010-03-15

  OTTAWA – NDP Human Rights Critic Wayne Marston held a press conference today to announce the tabling of his “Prevention of Torture Act.” The bill ...

• BBC News: Brown leads funeral tributes to Michael Foot 2010-03-15

  I thought even if he won he would be submitting himself to endless torture." Mr Foot was indeed subjected to "agonies", he said.

• BBC News: Murder of London charity worker described as 'brutal' 2010-03-15

  The victim volunteered at the Redress charity, a human-rights organisation which supports survivors of torture, Mr Allain added.

• The Palestine Telegraph: Headless Man's Tomb Found Under Maya Torture Mural 2010-03-15

  World, March 15, 2010 (Pal Telegraph)- The tomb of a headless man adorned with jade has been discovered beneath an ancient Mexican chamber famously painted ...

• Scoop.co.nz: Anthony Ravlich: Freedom from our social prisons 2010-03-15

  It is all about hiding the truth but the high profile torture camps could not be hidden. How can anyone have confidence in State statistics when the State ...

• Pravda: Karl Rove Justifies Torture and Lies 2010-03-15

  Former presidential adviser Karl Rove defended extreme interrogation techniques because, as he said, it contributed to saving lives of US soldiers.

• Irish Independent: The 'curse' of the paedophile priest lives on 2010-03-15

  Smyth's sexual torture of children was first revealed in a television documentary in October 1994 and by December Reynolds was an ex-Taoiseach.

• The Moderate Voice: The Pope And The Ever-Widening European Priest Sex-Abuse Scandals 2010-03-15

  In 2001, Pope John Paul II placed this department in charge of the investigation of child rape and torture by Catholic priests. In May of that year ...

• The Sun: SAS McNab: We need change 2010-03-15

  He won national fame by writing about his exploits behind enemy lines with the Special Air Service, his capture and torture by Saddam Hussein's henchmen.

• Ekklesia: Welsh Christians challenge would-be MPs over torture 2010-03-15

  By staff writers A Welsh Christian group will challenge general election candidates to make clear whether they believe it is always wrong to use torture.

• StarNewsOnline.com: On the Critters news wire: March 15 2010-03-15

  Our criminal justice system nationwide simply needs to get tougher in punishing those who abuse or torture the defenseless. An anti-tethering bill has ...

• Gulf Times: Minister wades into Bulger killers row 2010-03-15

  He added that the Edlington torture case in Doncaster , where two boys abused a youngster after themselves being abused by adults, was a further case th ...

• Metal Underground: Moonsorrow To Play Brutal Assault Festival 2010 2010-03-15

  Let's drink some best Czech beer in the world and have some big fun once more before the studio torture starts in September. ARE YOU WITH US?

• WIVB: Letter from Hassan's wife details abuse 2010-03-15

  ORCHARD PARK, NY (WIVB) - Prosecutors call it proof that she lived a life of fear and torture. A letter written by Aasiya Hassan chronicled years of abuse ...

• ENC Today: Closer look at New Bern's original settlers 2010-03-15

  Why were there so few of them? Why was torture such a part of their culture? How did the whites abuse them, and why? It should be an interesting trip.

• Al-Masry Al-Youm: Sharqiya woman accuses police of torture 2010-03-15

  A woman has filed a complaint with the attorney general in which she accused police in the village of Deirab Nigm in Sharqiya of detaining and torturing her ...

• IFC: "Serbian Film" : Giving new meaning to the term "torture porn." 2010-03-15

  When introducing the world premiere of "Serbian Film," the directorial debut of Srdjan Spasojevic, the filmmakers suggested ...

• The Associated Press: US military hands over prison to Iraqi government 2010-03-15

  And the scandal following the release of photos showing American troops mistreating detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison sparked outrage across Iraq and ...

• Politico: Health care's family feud 2010-03-15

  I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves ...

• CNET: US Army worried about Wikileaks in secret report 2010-03-15

  ACTA is a matter of national security along the NSA wiretapping program, and integration methods like water boarding and other abuse carried out by ...

• Knox Leader: Grisly bunny torture in Rowville 2010-03-15

  A ROWVILLE community is in shock after a rabbit was tortured, killed and hung by its legs, with three nails shot through its head, and left at a busy ...

• The Associated Press: AG sees promising change toward open government 2010-03-15

  ... moves toward openness, including its disclosure of Bush administration legal opinions used to justify harsh interrogation that some consider torture.

• NorthumberlandView.ca: How Much Is This Conservative Stall Going To Cost? 2010-03-15

  So, from what I see, Harper continues to abuse the powers of his office, disrespect the supremacy of Parliament and behave like he has a right to ignore ...

• Interlake Spectator: Remember abuse victims 2010-03-15

  It had to be evil, why else would an adult torture and kill someone so helpless? Equally sickening is how the system allowed Phoenix's death to happen.

• National: Punjab's police defiant in face of abuse charges 2010-03-15

  Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images ISLAMABAD // Amid ongoing Supreme Court hearings on the torture of criminal suspects, new evidence has emerged th ...

• Los Angeles Daily News: Daniel Heimpel: Fighting to save transition program 2010-03-15

  Rivera, who endured abuse at the hands of his parents and torture at the hands of criminals, now refuses to accept threats to his housing stability.

• Sydney Morning Herald: Echoes of empire and Bollywood 2010-03-15

  Souvenir stalls sell leather hats, cane backscratchers, wooden foot massagers, flip-flop sandals, sepia photos of old Malacca and kitsch painted kittens.

• Ghana News Agency: IGP cautions Station Officers against abuse of suspects 2010-03-15

  ... GNA - The Inspector General of Police, (IGP) Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye, has asked station officers not to instigate or tolerate any act of torture, cruelty ...

• The Public Record: UK/US Asylum Seekers Find Death, Abuse, and Criminal Indifference 2010-03-15

  An article in the March 14 UK Observer reports that United Kingdom's asylum immigration system is systematically denying claims of torture ...

• New York Magazine: Phallic Sculptures and Other Ways to Torture Your Real-Estate Agent 2010-03-15

  You wouldn't buy a pair a shoes without trying them on, so why would you buy an apartment in New York without eating Chinese food in the kitchen at least ...

• Payvand: Photos: Assailants attack Iranian opposition leader's home 2010-03-15

  Mehdi Karoubi was the first person who wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Expediency Council in order to inform him of the "torture and sexual abuse"  ...

• Planet Thrive: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: The shocking disease 2010-03-15

  Yet the incidence of ME patients being recommended, or forced or coerced into, this torture…sorry, 'treatment' is growing every year.

• News & Observer: Extraordinary rendition and a missing speaker 2010-03-15

  Many credible reports indicate that Smithfield-based Aero Contractors - working for the CIA - picks up detainees and flies them to sites where torture ...

• New Yorker: Books: “In the Company of Angels.” 2010-03-15

  The stories of torture that emerge from their sessions offer, in their horror and dignity, a quiet criticism of the characters with more prosaic problem ...

• Kashmir Media Service: JI condemns torture on Shakeel Ahmad Ahangar 2010-03-15

  Srinagar, March 15 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Jammu and Kashmir has condemned the Indian Police for torturing Shakeel Ahmad ...

• Payvand: GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN: CALLING A SPADE, A SPADE 2010-03-15

  Those who do not like my stuff or lack the patience or the attention span to read through my writings before passing judgment, do not have to torture ...

• New York Magazine: Phallic Sculptures and Other Ways to Torture Your Real Estate Agent 2010-03-15

  You wouldn't buy a pair a shoes without trying them on, so why would you buy an apartment in New York without eating Chinese food in the kitchen at least ...

• Publishers Weekly: Children's Book Reviews: 3/15/2010 2010-03-15

  The rumor mill has Zachary responsible for everything from minor pranks to animal torture and car theft, but when he moves in, he prefers to simply avoid ...

• Seattle Weekly: Music Video, Kind Of: Massive Attack's Mini-Documentary For "Saturday Come Slow" 2010-03-15

  ... on torture practices - namely, the use of loud noises - with prisoners at Abu Ghraib, including a disturbing interview with one such prisoner.

2010-03-14: Headlines

• Firedoglake: A Catalog of the Destroyed Torture Evidence 2010-03-14

  [Mike Dunlavey, who was in charge of Gitmo as they put together the torture plan for Mohammed al-Qahtani] would have liked to have gone back to the daily ...

• The Spoof: Jon Venables Sneeks Lengthy Letter Out Of Jail 2010-03-14

  Just like I apologised after I was convicted of James Bulgers torture and murder. As you can see, although my grammar and spelling isn't the best in ...

• 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: 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 ...

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

  Torture survivors seeking sanctuary in Britain are being wrongly held in government detention centres, despite independent medical evidence supporting ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Arab News: Domestic torture prolonged by Riyadh police inaction 2010-03-14

  By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: A case of domestic abuse in the capital has once again raised the question: When is the appropriate time for police to enter a private ...

• 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 ...

• TheChronicleHerald.ca: Asylum appeal ends in death 2010-03-14

  Its military has been accused of thousands of human rights violations, and torture and sexual abuse in the army is reportedly horrifying.

• Al-Masry Al-Youm: US govt report slams Egypt on human rights 2010-03-14

  Police and other security forces act largely with impunity when it comes to torture and prisoner abuse, both of which are common in Egypt's police stati ...

• VoiceofSikkim: Nepal Police Torture Men to Extract Confession, Two Die in Custody 2010-03-14

  14 Mar, Kathmandu: The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received information that police tortured a 30-year-old man to force him to confess a theft ...

• Voxy: Commission Welcomes Justice Minister's Appearance At UN 2010-03-14

  ... against children and young people, electoral finance reform and the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT).

• Eurasia Review: What Torture Is, And Why It's Illegal And Not “Poor Judgment” 2010-03-14

  It's now over three weeks since veteran Justice Department lawyer David Margolis dashed the hopes of those seeking accountability ...

• Before It's News: 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 China̢۪s top ten ...

• Islam Online: Terrorized for Stoning Israeli Troops 2010-03-14

  In a report last year, the DCI said abuse and torture of these children are "widespread, systematic and institutionalized." The Israeli group B'Tselem say ...

• Macleans.ca: The terms of reference 2010-03-14

  After Abu Ghraib, the US Congress held public hearings and commissioned investigative reports – much of which was made public.

• 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 ...

• Palestine Think Tank: EU and US Are Involved in Torture of Palestinians 2010-03-14

  Sunday, March 14 2010 – The European Union, US war criminal general Keith Dayt ...

• 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 ...

• BusinessWorld Online: AFP, PNP given deadline on rights report 2010-03-14

  It also stated that members of security forces have committed physical and psychological abuse on suspects and detainees, and even acts of torture in some ...

• 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 ...

• 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.

• Minnesota Reads: Joe lies. When he cries. 2010-03-14

  It is billed as being about Flynn's thoughts on torture after the revelation of photos from Abu Ghraib, jux'ed with sonogram photos of his daughter.

• Japan Focus: American Police Training and Political Violence: From the Philippines Conquest ... 2010-03-14

  30 In An Xuyen, OPS advisor Donald Bordenkircher, who three decades later was appointed to head the Abu Ghraib prison facility in Iraq ...

• Manila Bulletin: Arroyo sets deadline for 'rights' report 2010-03-14

  “The PNP and the AFP should submit to the President by April 1 their reports on how they will address specific allegations of abuse in the report,” ...

• 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 ...

• Sri Lanka Watch: Panadura South police commits torture 2010-03-14

  Kalum Kumari is an 18 year old married woman. Her husband Palitha Perera is a 28 year old fish seller. This incident was happened on 10.03.2010.

• Yahoo! Tech: Rove: Obama 'aloof and disengaged' 2010-03-14

  ArtyL 11 hours ago Report Abuse Is this the same guy who just last week, in an attempt to sell his POS book said that waterboarding isn't torture and he'd ...

• Gaea Times: Clark Rockefeller Story 2010-03-14

  ... of abuse by his uncle, Gordon Stewart Northcott, a psychopath and sadist who lures young boys to the farm to sexually assault, torture and kill them ...

• Business Mirror: Respond to abuse claims, military, police ordered 2010-03-14

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

• Greensboro News & Record: Wrestling coach looks back on victories big, small 2010-03-14

  There are more than 100 photos. Another tradition is The Trunk of Old. It's a World War II foot locker that belonged to Frey's father.