Stacks of formerly classified documents about a torture program may seem like cold and impersonal things, but what they contain couldn’t be more intimate or harrowingly human.
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Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: detention, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Larry Siems, National Security & Human Rights, PEN America, torture
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Electric shocks, hanging detainees from ceilings, beatings, and sexual assault. When will international forces and the Afghan government truly grapple with the problem of the abuse of detainees?
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Did the Australian government participate in the overseas detention and torture of one of its citizens? A new independent inquiry has answers.
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Widespread use of torture, deaths in police custody, dismal prison conditions—it's time for Kyrgyzstan to take action on the rampant abuses within its justice system.
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Health facilities are mandated to provide care, especially to society’s most vulnerable people. When hospitals and clinics allow forced and coerced sterilizations, these facilities become places of abuse and torture.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Governance & Accountability, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Bangladesh, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, disability rights, forced sterilization, France, HIV/AIDS, intellectual disability, Lydia Guterman, Namibia, Peru, public health, reproductive rights, Roma, torture, United States, women, World Medical Association
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I taught interrogation and the law of war for 18 years to U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine interrogators. The truth—uncontroversial among those who actually interrogate suspects—is that torture is likely to produce faulty information because its victims will say anything to make the pain stop.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: 9/11 at 10, David R. Irvine, National Security & Human Rights, torture
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On September 11, 2011, Rev. Richard Killmer, Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Rev. Richard Cizik, and Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster discussed the formation of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and their collective work to voice the moral objections of America’s diverse religious communities to the...
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, United States
Topics: 9/11 at 10, Ingrid Mattson, Islamic Society of North America, Nancy Chang, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, National Security & Human Rights, New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, Rabbis for Human Rights – North America, Rachel Kahn-Troster, Richard Cizik, Richard Killmer, torture
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A UN report has exposed systematic torture and abuse in several Afghan prisons where international forces transfer detainees, including beatings, electrocutions, and threats of sexual assault.
Posted in: Asia, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: Afghanistan, Christopher Rogers, detainees, ISAF, torture, UN report
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The complicity of medical professionals in the abuse and torture of prisoners has been well documented. What is less recognized, though, is how state-sponsored violations of human rights can undermine medical professionalism in day-to-day clinical practice.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice
Topics: American Medical Association, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, Farrah Matteen, forced sterilization, health care, Leonard Rubenstein, medical professionalism, pain relief, palliative care, Peru, public health, torture
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The U.S. has said it will investigate only two out of almost 100 cases of alleged mistreatment of terrorism suspects by the CIA. But international investigations and legal action into the abuses mean the questions will not go away.