Friday, 29 March , 2024

torture

Takeaways from the UN Special Rapporteur Report on Guantanamo

by Scott Roehm June 29, 2023 On June 26 – the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture – the United Nations Special Rapporteur on...

Germany: Towards a defining moment

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos I was writing an article on what I think are the two major dynamics in Europe today. The social and democratic revolt...

U.S. Government Quietly Declassifies Post-9/11 Interview With Bush and Cheney

In a newly declassified interview conducted in 2004, Bush shows not a glimmer of awareness of the destruction and carnage he had unleashed on...

The U.S. releases the oldest prisoner in Guantánamo Bay

By Juliana Kim Oct 29, 2022 Saifullah Paracha, a 75-year-old man from Pakistan who was held in the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, without...

Israeli anti-torture body refers Israel to International Criminal Court

Public Committee Against Torture in Israel says after 30 years it has concluded Israeli authorities not interested and unable to stop abuse of Palestinians By Lubna...

Trump’s CIA director Gina Haspel watched as a detainee was tortured...

By Kevin Reed 8 June 2022 Recent testimony at a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, revealed that Gina Haspel, the director of the CIA during the...

Zelensky’s Secret CIA-Nazi Ukrainian Government

By Eric Zuesse Not publicized, but instead carefully hidden, is the systematic terrorizing, tracking down, and killing, of political opponents, which includes not only opposed...

“One less traitor”: Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture...

By Max Blumenthal and Esha Krishnaswamy April 17, 2022 While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals’ arrest, and...

Guantanamo: US Supreme Court rules CIA black sites are state secrets

Decision blocks efforts by Guantanamo detainee to seek information about his torture at a black site widely known to have been in Poland Mar 3,...

Guantanamo Territory Should Be Returned to Cuba

By Ramona Wadi January 18, 2022 While the immediate implications of Guantanamo with regard to the U.S. violations at the base are of paramount importance, the...