Friday, 29 March , 2024

torture

UN expert joins calls for presidential pardon for Assange

UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer has written an open letter to US president Donald Trump, becoming the latest in a chorus of...

The ICC refuses to prosecute UK war crimes in Iraq despite...

By Jean Shaoul Dec, 17, 2020 The International Criminal Court (ICC) has abandoned its inquiry into war crimes committed by British troops in Iraq between 2003...

Ex-CIA Chief Says US-Assassinated Iranian General Soleimani Was His Personal ‘Nemesis’

by Aleksandra Serebriakova Dec. 7, 2020 Former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan, who will be remembered by many as a defender of the use of...

The CIA’s Secret Global War Against the Left

Forty-five years ago, under a cloak of secrecy, Operation Condor was officially launched: a global campaign of violent repression against the Latin American left...

Argentina’s House of Horrors

CIA Document Leads Human Rights Investigators to Previously Unidentified Clandestine Torture Center Declassified U.S. Records Reveal Address of House Used by State Intelligence Service to Interrogate,...

Human Rights Watch: Children in Egypt tortured in detention

March 23, 2020 Human Rights Watch (HRW) is accusing Egypt of arresting and torturing children as young as 12. A report from the international rights...

End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange

By Stephen Frost, Lissa Johnson Jill Stein, William Frost on behalf of 117 signatories February 17, 2020 On Nov 22, 2019, we, a group of more than 60...

‘US is torturing Chelsea Manning’: Top UN official says her treatment...

31 Dec, 2019 Chelsea Manning is being subjected to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, constituting torture by the US government over her refusal to testify...

Torturing and Exterminating Assange to terrorize journalists around the globe

US wants to 'make an example' of Assange in jail, UN expert claims By Nick Miller July 28, 2019 The United States government has promised that Julian...