torture
‘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...
‘Assange case is unlike anything I’ve seen in 20yrs of work...
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to UN Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer about his assessment of Julian Assange’s condition. He says...
Refugees in Libya ‘tortured’ for breaking out of detention centre
Nearly 150 detainees broke out of their cell in Tripoli's Triq al Sikka earlier this week to protest against abuse.
by Sally Hayden
2 Mar 2019
As...
After Mattis’s Resignation, a President Unbound
By Mark Landler
December 21, 2018
For most of his tumultuous 23 months in office, President Trump has tried to shake off anyone who would restrain...
Egypt’s military junta condemns 75 coup protesters to death
30 July 2018
A Cairo court referred 75 defendants to Egypt’s grand mufti to approve death by hanging sentences on Saturday. The 75 are all...
Ecuador’s Ex-President Rafael Correa Denounces Treatment of Julian Assange as “Torture”
By Glenn Greenwald
May 16 2018
Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, in an exclusive interview with The Intercept on Wednesday morning, denounced his country’s current government for blocking Julian...
US court documents reveal: Immigrant children tied down, hooded, beaten, stripped...
By Patrick Martin
22 June 2018
Court documents made public in Virginia and Texas give a glimpse of the systematic brutality being meted out to...
‘Astonishing’ CIA memo shows Brazil’s ex-dictator authorized torture and executions
Newly unearthed document details Ernesto Geisel’s approval of over 100 executions of ‘subversives’, sparking immediate outcry in Brazil
By Tom Phillips
11 May 2018
Brazil’s...