A recent study funded by the Open Society Foundations uncovered routine torture, illegal detention, and extortion of people suspected of using illegal drugs by police in Indonesia. This police abuse is taking place with total impunity.
Posts Tagged “torture”
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Dr. Muttacaud Rajagopal is one of the undisputed leaders of the palliative care movement worldwide. His work is motivated by the conviction that no human being, no matter how sick or poor, should suffer from pain in cruel, inhuman, and degrading conditions.
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Doug Liman, director of the The Bourne Identity and Fair Game, has teamed up with the ACLU and PEN American Center on a collaborative film project to fight torture, and he needs your help.
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Britain's debate over the use of classified intelligence material in court highlights the need to set an appropriate and transparent balance between what may legitimately be held in secret, and the public's right to know.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: Binyam Mohamed, Bisher al-Rawi, CIA, Emi MacLean, extraordinary rendition, freedom of expression, freedom of information, Guantanamo, Justice and Security Green Paper, Lord Dyson, MI5, Principles on National Security and the Right to Information, torture, UK Supreme Court, whistleblowing
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The story of Azimzhan Askarov, a human rights defender unfairly serving a life sentence in Kyrgyzstan, symbolizes the country's failing justice system and the ruling elite's unwillingness to safeguard basic rights for all Kyrgyz citizens.
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The task of theater is not to teach a lesson, perhaps, but to arouse in an audience the energy and excitement of our own fragile humanity—the annihilation of which is the entire objective of torture.
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World leaders have an opportunity at the United Nations this year to declare that the application of law should be free of the taint of political interest.
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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.
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.