Torture
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Torture Firm Risks Incorporated Tied To Destructive Evictions in Haiti By Ansel Herz
Security forces who are tearing down makeshift tent camps inhabited by Haitians displaced in last year’s earthquake were trained by Risks Incorporated, a US private security firm involved in torture trainings in Mexico, a Narco News investigation has found. Three camps in Delmas, a district in central Port-au-Prince, have been destroyed in the past week,… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks for 19 February, 2011
19 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Why Bradley Manning Matters Subversify By grainnerhuad Published: February 18, 2011 Posted in: Featured, Headline, News In the wake of all the coverage of Julian Assange it seems we have collectively swept US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning under the rug. In fact in everyday conversation on the … subversify.com/2011/02/18/why-bradley-manning-matters/ Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks for 15 February, 2011: Investigators Still Can’t Find Any Evidence To Link Assange & Manning
15 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Assange Opposed Quick Publication of Cables Out of Concern for Manning Wired News (blog) Davies met with Assange after reading Wired.com’s excerpts of chat logs between Bradley Manning and ex-hacker Adrian Lamo in which Manning allegedly … www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/assange-opposed-cables/ Continue reading
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Media Lens: Captive Nation – Egypt And The West
What an extraordinary spectacle it is – a dictatorship behaving as though an entire people were its personal property. Henchmen aside, the people have spoken, almost as one, and their demands are very clear. The blunt government response, in effect: We react as we want. If we don’t want to, we don’t have to. Why?… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks for 29 January, 2011
29 January, 2011 — creative-i.info DOD spokesman attacks reporters for misrepresenting Bradley Manning case Daily Caller (AP Photo, File) Some of the staunchest defenders of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the man who stands accused of leaking secret documents to WikiLeaks, … dailycaller.com/2011/01/28/dod-spokesman-attacks-reporters-for-misrepresenting-bradley-manning-case/ Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks for 28 January, 2011
28 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Supporters Object To Treatment Of WikiLeaks Suspect NPR by Tom Gjelten Pfc. Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, the two men at the center of the WikiLeaks controversy, have achieved hero status among their allies … www.npr.org/2011/01/27/133280654/Supporters-Object-To-Treatment-Of-WikiLeaks-Suspect Continue reading
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Building a police state in Palestine By Aisling Byrne
“If we are building a police state — what are we actually doing here?” So asked a European diploma responding to allegations of torture by the Palestinian security forces. The diplomat might well ask. A police state is not a state. It is a form of larceny: of people’s rights, aspirations and sacrifices, for the… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Daily News Roundup 27 December, 2010
27 December, 2010 — creative-i.info BofA Has Domain Shopping Spree Ahead of WikiLeaks Round Triple Pundit By Leon Kaye | December 27th, 2010 0 Comments Whatever you think about WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, he is not going down–nor will he be extradited … www.triplepundit.com/2010/12/wikileaks-bank-of-america/ Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Suffering Extreme Isolation Prison Torture — Courageous Whistleblower ‘Physically Deteriorating’
Last week, Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified materials to Wikileaks, spent his 23rd birthday in the brig of the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia. He has been convicted of no crime, but endures the kind of highly restrictive detention that’s usually reserved for the most dangerous criminals in America’s supermax prisons. Continue reading
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U.N. Special Rapporteur Juan Méndez: Instead of Focusing on Assange, U.S. Should Address WikiLeaks’ Disclosures of Torture
One of the leaked U.S. State Department cables released by WikiLeaks urges diplomats to gather intelligence about “plans and intentions of member states or U.N. Special Rapporteurs to press for resolutions or investigations into U.S. counter-terrorism strategies and treatment of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan or Guantanamo.” We speak to Juan Méndez, the new U.N. Special… Continue reading
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George W. Bush can’t fight for freedom and authorise torture By Boris Johnson
It is not yet clear whether George W Bush is planning to cross the Atlantic to flog us his memoirs, but if I were his PR people I would urge caution. As book tours go, this one would be an absolute corker. It is not just that every European capital would be brought to a… Continue reading
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BRITAIN: Not Executing, Just Enabling By David Cronin
European Union officials are reluctant to tighten up rules covering the trade in products designed for torture or the death penalty, despite suggestions that a British company has been exporting lethal injection drugs used in executions. Continue reading
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Interrogation Techniques at ‘Britain’s Abu Ghraib’ Revealed By Ian Cobain
Evidence of systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at a secret British military interrogation centre that is being described as the UK’s Abu Ghraib emerged today during high court proceedings brought by more than 200 former inmates. Continue reading
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“Blood on British Hands”: The Fate of Guantanamo Detainee 239 British National Shaker Aamer by Felicity Arbuthnot
So Shaker, now nearing nine years on, remains in helpless, voiceless, limbo. “The only time I have seen him emotional was over his family. I was able to get photographs of his youngest child into him, but that was very heartbreaking for him, in a way he didn’t want to see it. I saw him… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 October, 2010: Woman filmed by soldiers describes torture, humiliation
7 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Eleven Palestinians Wounded In Several Israeli Military Attacks In Gaza IMEMC – 7 Oct 2010 – Friday October 08, 2010 – 04:30, Palestinian medical sources reported that eleven Palestinians were wounded Thursday after the Israeli army conducted several aerial attacks, and attempted to assassinate… Continue reading
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Tony Blair ‘knew of torture claims eight years ago’: His handwritten note was on secret letter By Jack Doyle
Tony Blair knew about allegations that British nationals held in U.S. custody were being tortured just months into the War on Terror, it was claimed last night. A previously secret document carries notes apparently in Mr Blair’s handwriting which refer to claims that detainees were being ill-treated. Continue reading
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Wikileaks, Resistance, Genuine Heroes, and Breaking the Goddamned Rules (II) By Arthur Silber
29 July, 2010 — Once Upon a Time… Life and Death in the Obedience Culture I have sometimes described America today as an “obedience culture.” The phrase refers to the fact that, beneath the specifics of the largely pointless debates on any topic you care to name, those who purport to speak on behalf of… Continue reading
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Palestine: Harrowing Update from Family of Ameer Makhoul
Ameer Makhoul, Director of Ittijah, a coalition of Palestinian Israeli Community Organizations, was arrested three weeks ago from his home in Haifa. Makhoul was unable to see his lawyer for the first weeks of his arrest and now his lawyers and his family, having seen him, assert that he has been tortured. Continue reading
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Al-Haq Action Alert: Human Rights Defender Arbitrarily Detained and Tortured by Israeli Occupation Forces
On 15 March 2010, Umar Mousa Muhammad Ala-al-Din, a 25 year old Palestinian student from the village of al-Masara, near Bethlehem, was taken by Israeli Border Police and detained for seven days, until 22 March 2010. Ala-al-Din is a member of the Popular Resistance Committee of al-Masara village and an organizer of non-violent protests against… Continue reading
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