Sahar Yasiri says ?Iraq is the number one country having the largest number of prisons in the world where there are more than 400 thousand Iraqi detainees including 6500 children and 10 thousand women.? This is the first part of long interview translated by AMSI English Web Team.
The representative of the Federation of prisoners and [...]
Abu Zubaydah, an alleged senior al-Qaeda operative, has been held without charge or trial as a “high-value detainee” for over six years, first in secret CIA custody, and then in Guantánamo, while battles have raged within the administration over his supposed significance. Drawing, in particular, on the story of former Guantánamo prisoner Khalid al-Hubayshi, Andy [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Recent letters from the Justice Department to Congress state that U.S. intelligence agents working to prevent terror attacks can legally use interrogation techniques banned by international law, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
President George W. Bush issued an executive order last summer in which he said the CIA would observe [...]
18-year-old Muhibullah of rural Afghanistan allegedly heard intruders trying to break into his family’s compound in the village of Uruzgan. Having assumed the role of head of household after his father, Haji Yar Mohammed, had lost a leg and eye fighting against the Soviets in the late `70s during a U. S. backed effort, Muhibullah [...]
Forced Medication in Interrogation Can Constitute Crimes and Violate Nuremberg Code, Says PHR; Medical, Human Rights Group Calls for Congressional and DOJ Investigations
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) urgently called on Congress and the Department of Justice, with the involvement of the FBI, to each immediately investigate allegations by detainees that they were forcibly drugged [...]
It was the young officials at Guantánamo who dreamed up a list of new aggressive interrogation techniques, inspired by Jack Bauer from the TV series, 24. But it was the politicians and lawyers in Washington who set the ball rolling. Philippe Sands follows the torture trail right to the top
By Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands QC uncovers [...]
He spent over four years in Guantánamo Bay, the infamous US detention camp. The tale of Murat Kurnaz, as told by himself, will hit US bookstores this week. In his first interview since his release from Guantánamo Bay in 2006, Kurnaz tells Germany’s “Stern”-magazine all about torture, solitary confinement, being humiliated, and his life in [...]
Tribune Editorial
I resisted watching ”Taxi to the Dark Side,” the documentary on America’s treatment of terror suspects that won this year’s Academy Award as best documentary feature. The review DVD I was sent was sitting on top of my television set for a week, reminding me - no exhorting me - to look at it, [...]
By PAUL C. CAMPOS, Scripps Howard News Service
In 2003, when he was a deputy assistant U. S. attorney general, John Yoo wrote a long legal memorandum arguing that the president has the inherent constitutional authority to torture people.
Furthermore, Yoo claimed, the president’s power to torture can’t be limited by Congress, the courts, or international treaties. [...]
By Phil Villarreal
A brutal, uncompromising exposé on sadistic American interrogation practices in the war on terror, the best-documentary Oscar winner “Taxi to the Dark Side” is tough to watch.
Showing none of the restraint for gory detail that network news displayed when the stories broke, Alex Gibney (”Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”) directs and [...]
To the Editor:
Re “ ’03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations” (front page, April 2):
It’s high time that the authors of the Bush administration’s legal recipe book for torture be brought out of the kitchen and into the courtroom. Yet despite volumes of highly credible evidence of human rights crimes, or even war crimes, a negligent [...]
Nick Juliano
This week’s revelation of another secret Bush administration memo that seemed to eliminate
any boundaries on the treatment of detainees added to the already substantial evidence that US military and intelligence interrogators have abused and perhaps even tortured prisoners rounded up during the “war on terror.”
Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo wrote in 2003 [...]
Filed by RAW STORY
Of Guantanamo interrogators: “You could almost see their dicks getting hard as they got new ideas.”
“Torture at Guant?namo was sanctioned by the most senior advisers to the president, the vice president, and the secretary of defense, according to the international lawyer and professor of law at University College London Philippe Sands, who [...]
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