Saturday, 27 July , 2024

torture

“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...

Left, Wars and War Capitalist Economy

A guide for the U.S. antiwar movement Originally published: Covert Action Magazine by Matt McKenna and Jeremy Kuzmarov August 19, 2021 photo:antiwarcommittee.org Since the Vietnam War, the...

Italy Confirms 14 Life Sentences for Operation Condor Killers

Initially, the judges were analyzing accusations against 20 criminals. During the process, however, the Court found that three defendants had already died and asked...

Leaked docs reveal senior MI6 operative implicated in torture led British...

By Kit Klarenberg Jul 9, 2021 photo: © Reuters / Toby Melville Millions was spent clandestinely setting up and paying a network of ‘journalists’ to pump out...

UN’s torture expert condemns persecution of Julian Assange as efforts to...

6 Jun, 2021 Efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Belmarsh Prison in the UK were ramped up this week ahead of the G7...

Ten years since WikiLeaks and Assange published the Guantánamo Files

By Oscar Grenfell 30 April 2021 Last week marked a decade since WikiLeaks published a tranche of 779 secret files from the US government’s Guantánamo Bay...

The Empire does not permit to US Presidents to close Guantanamo....

Karen Greenberg, The Guantánamo Conundrum May 4, 2021 It seemed obvious enough to me in 2006.  When you included the CIA’s “black sites” around the globe...

The history of the Shin Bet’s use of torture, and what...

Israel outlawed torture more than two decades ago, yet years later evidence of the state’s security services exerting abuse continue to surface By Sarmad Ishfaq ...