National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture Duration: 2003 - 2005 Charter: Supreme Decree No. 1040 Commissioners ... Torture and detention were used as a tool for political control by State authorities and perpetuated by decrees and laws that ... Torture by members of the Armed Forces and Carabineros (paramilitary police) was a generalized practice on a national scale. ... Mandate: The Valech Commission was mandated to document abuses of civil rights or politically motivated torture that took place ...

Torture of political prisoners and torture during armed conflicts receive more attention compared to torture of the poor or ... Some hold categorical views on torture; for others, tortures acceptability depends on the victim. Support for torture in ... "whoever was tortured, stays tortured". Many torture victims, including Améry, later die by suicide. Survivors often experience ... Many torture victims will say whatever the torturer wants to hear to end the torture. Others who are guilty refuse to make a ...

... secret prison and torture program. The report, following up on the ACLUs 2012 Torture Report, traces the evolution of the ... Learn more about U.S. sanctioned torture and other civil liberty issues: Sign up for breaking news alerts, follow us on Twitter ... While President Obama outlawed the torture techniques used by the CIA, he has to date refused to hold anyone accountable for ... The OSJI report reveals that 54 nations, more than a quarter of the world, directly participated in the torture program, ...

Abu Zubaydah Was Tortured for Years at CIA Black Sites. Biden Is Trying to Keep the Abuse Secret.. ... Architect of CIAs Torture Program Testifies in War Court at Guantánamo Bay. ... Guantánamo Turns 20: Ex-Prisoner Moazzam Begg Calls on Biden to Close Site & End Legacy of Torture. ... "Doing Harm": Roy Eidelson on the American Psychological Associations Embrace of U.S. Torture Program. ...

Violence is against all the rules of human rights. Yet this man was beaten until he couldnt stand. His story is amongst dozens of others to come before the court. Many thanks to the...

All were raped and tortured while the others were forced to watch. He killed one of the women by putting her in a pit, filling ... In the basement of Heidniks dilapidated house is a veritable torture chamber where three naked women were found chained to a ... https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/torture-chamber-uncovered-in-philadelphia. ...

... Silencing human rights activists who highlight human rights violations will not solve ... We have engaged the Thai authorities in a constructive manner since the outset of this work on torture and other ill-treatment ... It is an appalling state of affairs when speaking up for human rights can be criminalized but torture continues with impunity. ... At a press conference in Bangkok, Amnesty International was due to launch the report on torture and other ill-treatment in ...

Torture in secret detention. Kadyrov s units hold and torture detainees in premises that are not lawful places of detention. ... In particular, those who had been tortured by ORB-2 personnel said that their injuries sustained as a result of torture were ... According to the interviewees, the appointed lawyers ignored their complaints about torture although they saw the torture marks ... Illegal arrest and torture of two brothers, Sulim S. and Salambek S. In mid-March 2006, 29-year-old Sulim S. was on his way to ...

We Americans developed a very good manual for torturing leftist rebels, i.e. anyone who opposes free trade and organizes ... The lessons of torture are matter-of-fact. Torture is widespread, obviously effective or we wouldnt use it so much, and to ... First of all, torture is widely practiced. We Americans developed a very good manual for torturing "leftist rebels," i.e. ... The same danger exists with "High Time for Torture," a satirical piece that reveals the absurdity of torture as a sanctioned ...

10/When torture caused Abu Zubaydahs eyes to deteriorate, MDs only intervened to insure ability to see was saved to aid ... 3/The torture could not proceed w/o medical supervision. The medical profession was deeply embedded in this inhumanity. ... In a series of tweets this morning, surgeon and author Atul Gawande called out the doctors who helped the CIA torture people. ... 8/The Office of Medical Services provided consultation on when fractures and wounds were healed enough to resume torture. (p113 ...

A day doesnt pass without some discussion of torture policy: if, when and how President-elect Obama will change it, what his ... If you read one article about torture this week, make it Jeff Kayes article about the Army Field Manual (AFM) on Alternet. ... Jeff, however, raises the concern that Appendix M to the AFM still allows torture. He quotes the ACLUs Hina Shamsi, who points ... When he was a candidate, President-elect Obama swore to uphold the Geneva Conventions and reject torture. Were looking to him ...

... has called on Pakistani lawmakers to speed up the adoption of a bill that criminalizes the use of torture, a practice that the ... Justice and accountability in cases of torture will only be possible if parliament passes the torture bill and the government ... HRW said that it has long documented the widespread use of torture and other forms of abuse by the Pakistani police during ... Pakistans Senate should urgently pass a bill that would make torture a criminal offense, the New York-based watchdog said in ...

... suffocated and hit by Indonesian troops says he was tortured for two days, according to his testimony recorded and translated ... The next tortures were heating up a piece of iron or wire and it was put at my thighs and I screamed on and on, he said in ... A PAPUAN man depicted in a video being burnt, suffocated and hit by Indonesian troops says he was tortured for two days, ... An image from the video of Tunaliwor Kiwo being tortured by Indonesian soldiers. ...

Category: Torture. Corrected: Gina Haspel Did Not Torture Zubaydah, Apparently. Posted on March 14, 2018. March 15, 2018. ... Gina Haspel Did Not Torture Zubaydah, Apparently Not only did the new CIA Director personally oversee the torture of Abu ... Categories Israel, News, Syria, TortureAuthor by Angela Keaton6 Comments on Update: Gag Lifted in Druze Spying Case Richard ... Categories Covert Action, Iran, Iraq, John Bolton, Middle East, News, Rudy Giuliani, Torture, War crimes, WMDTags Ahmed Chalabi ...

Torture February 13, 2023 CAMERA Op-Ed: All Quiet on the Gaza Front? Hamas, the U.S.-designated terrorist group that calls for ... NPR Tortures the Truth to Malign Israel National Public Radio does it again, falsely charging that under Israeli law ... and responsible for the torture and murders of countless Jews. As Passover approaches and the world is engulfed in a ... and clarifies that Israel does not sanction torture against its own prisoners. ...

Gonzales knows about torture. Arar was detained less than two months after Gonzales office produced the notorious "Torture ... "The psychological torture that I endured during this 10-month period in the underground cell is really beyond human imagination ... Leahy fumed: "We knew damn well, if he went to Canada, he wouldnt be tortured. Hed be held. Hed be investigated. We also ... Arar spent the next 10 months enduring brutal beatings and psychological torture, kept in a cell the size of a grave. Arar was ...

So there you have it, just one more way in which torture by the United States did far more harm than any possible good, in fact ... Much of the information in the report of the 9/11 Commission was provided through more than 30 sessions of torture of detainees ... Whats also extremely disturbing is that the CIA never told the Commission of the existence of videotapes made of the torture ... As Jed Lewison reported here a while back, we now know that they tortured to justify Iraq war. ...

Former Guantanamo Prisoner Alleges Torture. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF Published: MARCH 8, 2009 23:40 * ... and torture of a British resident who was held in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other locations for nearly seven ... said the British government actively cooperated with US officials in his rendition and torture despite its repeated denials. ...

The trade in goods used to inflict the death penalty and torture can contribute to the incidence of capital punishment and ... "A frightening arsenal of instruments of torture are still being manufactured, sold and marketed in a number of Council of ... torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," he said. ... torture by providing those responsible with the means to act," he continued, in presenting his report which calls for a ...

If word reached me that you were being tortured, I would instantly feel tortured myself, because I would be. Torture is ... Ringing in my ears is something I thought I heard you say: America does not torture. And if this is true, now, under your watch ... From the Ten Against Torture Campaign. ALICE WALKER is the author of The Color Purple and other novels and books of poetry. She ... It has already been recognized that "confessions" obtained by torture are useless. It is easy to see why. If someone is water ...

No Torture. No Exceptions. by Jimmy Carter January 1, 2008. January 9, 2022. ... Our governments persistent unwillingness to ban the use of torture by its own agents or to grant access to legal counsel or ... Tragically, the tolerance of torture by our own government is today threatening to undermine the cause of human rights and the ... ntil recent years the United States has been in the forefront of condemning torture and indefinite detention without trial as ...

Case arose after a Bahraini citizen alleged the prince was involved in the torture of detained prisoners ... A decision by the that the son of Bahrains king is immune from prosecution for alleged torture has been quashed in the High ... FF alleged the prince was involved in the torture of detained prisoners during the pro-democracy uprising of 2011 but was told ... Prince Nasser of Bahrain torture ruling quashed by High Court. Case arose after a Bahraini citizen alleged the prince was ...

Stuart K. Brigham, MD: Have you ever tried to use a sinus rinse? Its like water torture. I feel like Im drowning. ... Cite this: Nasal Irrigation Doesnt Have to Be Torture - Medscape - Dec 11, 2020. ...

"Torture is back in the repertoire of Bahrains security services," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights ... "The return of torture is especially distressing since Bahrain showed the political will a decade ago to end this scourge." ... Bahrain: End Torture of Security Suspects. Hold Officials Responsible for Abuse to Secure Confessions ... Where there is credible evidence that a prosecutor or other state agent was complicit in torture, the government should pursue ...

... the UN torture prevention body said on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the ... can regularly visit all detention facilities is vital to protect more than 10 million people detained worldwide from torture ... the Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture.. Follow the UN Treaty Bodies on social media!. We are on Twitter @UNTreatyBodies ... The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT), set up under the OPCAT, has carried out unannounced visits to two-thirds of ...

... from torturing animals to not providing proper shelter or veterinary care. ... Torture and Other Cruel Treatment. Typically, animal cruelty laws prohibit torture, mutilation, overworking, and killing any ... State animal cruelty laws punish a wide range of behavior, from torturing animals to not providing proper shelter or veterinary ... State laws usually prohibit several different kinds of mistreatment, from torturing or maiming an animal to not providing ...

"I never thought Id end up spending time on torture cases in the U.S." These days, that is what he does now, apparently full ... This is particularly the case since John Yoo, the author of the infamous August 2002 "torture memo," has been publicly ... "the official spokesman of the CIA torture team," that the cases have already been investigated and do not warrant attention. " ...

Prisoners at the prison Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from say guards tortured them for information on the escaped ...

"The police tortured us in this ruthless manner for no other purpose but to get verbal and material evidence to accuse and ... Gongs Accusers Claim Torture Induced False Confessions. Letters from imprisoned Christian women in China describe assaults ... alleges that she and five other co-workers were tortured mercilessly by police following their arrest in August 2001. ... from the embattled South China Church authorized the release on January 29 of three letters detailing how they were tortured by ...

Abductions, torture, rapes. Scores of civilians, including women and children, have been killed by the M23 rebels in eastern ...