Torture in US Prisons
Stephen LendmanTorture commonly occurs in America's homeland gulag
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Torture
Iraqi prisoners were abused at 'UK's Abu Ghraib', court hears
• The GuardianThe court was told there was evidence that detainees were starved, deprived of sleep, subjected to sensory deprivation and threatened with execution at the shadowy facilities near Basra operated by the Joint Forces Interrogation Team, or JFIT. It
Feds: Ohio jail’s stun-gun use is unconstitutional
• APJailers regularly use stun guns to “soften up” inmates who pose no threat and often use the guns on inmates who are disabled, pregnant or under the influence of drugs, and to shock naked and restrained prisoners and to punish inmates for routine rule
Humiliate, strip, threaten: UK military interrogation manuals discovered
• The GuardianThe British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions. Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell interrogato
UN calls for probe into US inaction on torture
• RawstoryThe documents chronicle numerous allegations of torture by Iraqi forces against their own citizens, as well as what appears to have been a standing order in the US military to ignore the allegations -- potentially a violation of international convent
The New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator!
• Boing Boing / Rob BeschizzaIt turns out the NYT has a reputation for studiously avoiding the word, to the point of using bizarre bureaucratic alternatives.
Doc who ‘inspired’ torture program gets $31 million Army contract
• RawstoryA psychologist whose research was used in constructing the US's program to torture terrorism suspects has been granted a $31-million no-bid Army contract to provide "resilience training" to US soldiers. Martin Seligman's research "formed the psycholo
Afghans allege abuse at secret US jail
• APA new report from a U.S. foundation details allegations of detainee abuse as recently as this year from Afghans who say they were held at a secret jail inside the main American military base in Afghanistan. The U.S. military has long operated a fa
Whistleblower reveals ‘systematic’ humiliation of detainees (VIDEO)
• RawstoryA former US soldier in Iraq has come forward with video of his fellow soldiers subjecting Iraqi detainees to what he describes as "mental, emotional, degrading" abuse. US Army Specialist Ethan McCord was a member of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1
When Society Thinks Torture is Funny – Have We Crossed the Line?
• The PPJ GazetteLynn Swearingen (c) copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED According to Amnesty International USA : Since June 2001, more than 351 individuals in the United States have died after being shocked by police Tasers. Most of those individuals were not c
Journalist: Women raped at Abu Ghraib were later ‘honor killed’
• Raw StorySome women who were raped at the US's Abu Ghraib prison facility in Iraq were later "honor killed" by their families, says a Jordanian reporter who writes on women's issues. "In Abu Ghraib, women were tortured by the Americans much more than
Yoo's Got Mail?
• MotherJonesThe Justice Department has finally uncovered emails written by John Yoo, the author of the so-called torture memos. But something's missing.
Jack Booted Thugs torture 64 year old man in own home
Thomas Costanzo(must see Video). Watch this Sixty –Four year Old cancer survivor with a heart condition getting tased 3 times in his own home, after his wife calls 911. The Jack Booted Thugs otherwise known as "police" or "officers" enter as the paramedics are le
Legacy of Torture
• NY TimesBecause federal judges cannot trust the confessions of prisoners obtained by intense coercion, they are regularly throwing out the government’s cases against Guantánamo Bay prisoners.
New "Laser" Weapon Debuts in LA County Jail
• NBC NewsGuards at the Los Angeles County jail complex in Castaic will start using a newfangled weapon that produces a deep burning sensation -- which is not to be confused with a “warm fuzzy feeling” -- in whomever it is aimed at.
Guantanamo judge says sees no torture of Canadian
• ReutersA military judge has ruled there is no credible evidence that a Canadian prisoner on trial in Guantanamo on murder and terrorism conspiracy charges was tortured into confessing after his capture in Afghanistan.
Torture tapes found under CIA desk
• APThe CIA has tapes of 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret overseas prison. Discovered under a desk, the recordings could provide an unparalleled look at how foreign governments aided the U.S. in holding and questioning suspect
Denver officials divided over punishment for officer in videotaped beating
• Christopher N. Osher denver post(Must see video)The video of Officer Devin Sparks repeatedly hitting Michael DeHerrera of Denver with a piece of metal wrapped in leather, picking him up roughly and slamming a car door on his ankle has prompted Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal
CIA doctors ‘gave green light to torture’
• RawstoryA new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that physicians with the CIA's Office of Medical Services (OMS) played an even greater role in facilitating the torture of detainees than was previously recognized.
Bush Aide Calls Some C.I.A. Torture Methods Unauthorized
• NY TimesA former Bush Justice Department official who approved brutal interrogation methods by the C.I.A. has told Congress that he never authorized several other rough tactics reportedly inflicted on terrorism suspects — including prolonged shackling to a c
Britain outlines secret service torture probe
• AFPBritain on Tuesday unveiled details of an inquiry into claims its security services were complicit in the torture of suspected violent extremists on foreign soil after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Generic Torture (CIA doc)
• ACLUUnder the breezy cover note “Dan, a generic description of the process,” this “Background Paper on CIA's Use of Interrogation Techniques” is one of the most chilling torture documents excavated to date. After the Abu Ghraib photographs surfaced an
Supreme Court snubs Canadian-Syrian torture appeal
• AFPThe US Supreme Court Monday refused to hear an appeal brought by a Canadian-Syrian who was wrongly arrested in the US in 2002 and expelled to Syria where he was held and tortured for a year. Computer engineer Maher Arar was detained in New York i
Torture and Research Experimentation: Official Policy under Bush and Obama
Stephen LendmanAmerica's longstanding degenerate tradition
The Sadists Apprentice: Echoes of Mengele
• Chris-Floyd.comAnd once the young denouncer of the Bush approach to terrorism took power for himself, he quickly embraced that same approach almost in its entirety, defending its most egregious depredations – indefinite detention, illegal wiretapping, etc.
Bush Administration conducted medical experiments on detainees
• RawStory.comThe group's review, which examined Bush-era documentation, asserts that the administration violated laws set up in the wake of the Holocaust to prevent medical testing on prisoners of war. (Nazi doctors sometimes experimented on their prisoners.)
Experiments in Torture: Physicians group alleges US conducted illegal research on detainees
• Boing BoingPhysicians for Human Rights (PHR) today released evidence it says indicates that the Bush administration conducted "illegal and unethical human experimentation and research" on detainees' response to torture while in CIA custody after 9/11.
Abu Ghraib Victims Ask Supreme Court to Hear Case Against Contractors CACI and L-3 (formerly TITAN)
• press@ccrjustice.orgCCR asked the Supreme Court to take up the case against CACI and L-3 Services (formerly Titan), two corporations whose employees participated in the infamous torture of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib.
Judge dismisses scores of Guantanamo habeas cases
• McClatchy NewsA federal judge has dismissed more than 100 habeas corpus lawsuits filed by former Guantanamo captives, ruling because the Bush and Obama administrations had transferred them elsewhere, the courts need not decide whether the Pentagon imprisoned them
Judge orders detainee abused at Guantanamo to be freed
• McClatchy NewsA federal judge ordered the Pentagon to release a long-held Mauritanian captive held at Guantanamo Bay who was once considered such a high-value detainee that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld designated him for [torture.]
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