A new report reminds us that torture and other ill-treatment of prisoners are not aberrations; they are common, even routine, in many detention facilities around the world.
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Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: global campaign for pretrial justice, Kersty McCourt, pretrial detention, torture
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Over the past decade, governments have increasingly turned to arbitrary detention, cruelty, and even torture in order to combat drug abuse.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Cambodia, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, China, drug detention, drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, forced labor, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, international justice, Mexico, public health, Roxanne Saucier, Russia, torture, war on drugs
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After a series of setbacks to efforts seeking accountability for CIA renditions, the European Parliament took an unexpected and positive step.
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Azimjan Askarov, Kyrgyzstan's best known political prisoner, has just celebrated his 60th birthday in jail. His case stands as an indictment of the Kyrgyz government's treatment of its ethnic Uzbek minority.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Rights & Justice, Uncategorized
Topics: Azimjan Askarov, Bazar-Korgon, Bishkek, Ferghana Valley, Kyrgyzstan, Masha Lisitsyna, torture, UN Human Rights Committee
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Most convictions in Pakistan courts are not based on physical evidence, but rather on confessions and testimonies. And the best and easiest way of getting people to talk is apparently to beat them up.
Posted in: Asia, Governance & Accountability, Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: corruption, Faisal Bari, Pakistan, police, police abuse, torture
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Governments across the globe increasingly detain people who use drugs against their will in the name of rehabilitation. Two prominent medical organizations are condemning this practice, calling for drug detention facilities to be closed immediately.
Posted in: Asia, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, drug detention, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, Helsinki Declaration, HIV/AIDS, human rights, International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organizations, Sarah Evans, torture, World Medical Association
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With the al-Nashiri rendition case, Europe has a chance to show the world that its human rights charter means what it says.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, CIA, death penalty, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, extraordinary rendition, Guantanamo, Khaled El-Masri, National Security & Counterterrorism, osama bin laden, Poland, Stare Kiejkuty, torture, USS Cole
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The Open Society Justice Initiative is calling on the European Court of Human Rights to intervene urgently in the first death penalty case to be tried by U.S. military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, al-Nashiri, Amrit Singh, CIA, death penalty, European Court of Human Rights, extraordinary rendition, Guantanamo, human rights, Jonathan Birchall, Lithuania, National Security & Counterterrorism, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, torture, USS Cole
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The police in Pakistan appear to be set up to ensure order and impose the dictates of power, rather than ensuring enforcement of the law and providing help to the masses.
Posted in: Asia, Rights & Justice
Topics: extrajudicial executions, Faisal Bari, Pakistan, police abuse, pretrial detention, torture
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Human rights in Uganda are being eroded under the guise of preserving national security, and meanwhile, Western powers appear willing to turn a blind eye.
Posted in: Africa, Rights & Justice
Topics: Al-Amin Kimathi, Amrit Singh, Commonwealth Lawyers Association, extraordinary rendition, Kampala bombings, Kenya, Kimathi, Mbugua Mureithi, Muslim Human Rights Forum, National Security & Counterterrorism, Philippe Sands, Rapid Response Unit, torture, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni