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Torture

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AP

Jailers 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

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Rawstory

The 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

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AP

A 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

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The PPJ Gazette

Lynn 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

News Link • Global Reported By Marti Oakley
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Raw Story

Some 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

News Link • Global Reported By Richard Deyoung
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MotherJones

The Justice Department has finally uncovered emails written by John Yoo, the author of the so-called torture memos. But something's missing.

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NY Times

Because 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.

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AP

The 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

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Rawstory

A 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.

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ACLU

Under 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

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AFP

The 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

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Chris-Floyd.com

And 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.

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McClatchy News

A 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

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