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The issue of Metro that is coming out tomorrow is going to reveal three incidents - one in 2002 and two in 2010 - when the New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan took prisoners and handed them to other forces. Allegations of this sort of thing have been going on.
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President George W. Bush has acknowledged ordering waterboarding on al Qaeda mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in early 2003. He has done so in several interviews as...
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I wonder where he got that idea?
Here is the new American century. A nation where torture is acceptable and ‘just really not a big deal’. When the Abu...
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There is something perversely sick about people who would stone to death a woman who was simply ’seen’ in the company of a man. But that is what the Taliban...
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There is something perversely sick about people who would stone to death a woman who was simply ’seen’ in the company of a man. But that is what the Taliban...
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A Kirkwood man arrested by the FBI on Thursday was one of four Missouri men who paid a fifth to either watch him torture a mentally disabled woman online or torture her...
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Before his recent arrest, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, nicknamed “La Barbie,” left behind a stable Texas family and allegedly became one of Mexico’s most...
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Today, for the first time, kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch reveals the horror of her ordeal in full, from the moment she was snatched from the street as a...
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In the windblown hills of the Eastern Cape, boys from the Xhosa tribe are in a hurry to be men.
At 20, Siphelele Zweni was ridiculed in his village. They called him...
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If Saudis have such little respect for their women folk, you can imagine the total lack of respect for a foreign female who happens to be a maid. Foreign domestic...
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Even though it’s against the law, female genital mutilation (FGM) is alive and well and still happening in Egypt today. One young 13-year-old girl, Nermine El...
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New Zealand’s government will soon release findings of reports and legal advice regarding allegations that the New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) were...
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Islamist extremists are particularly barbaric. Their use of extreme violence to gain control over others goes beyond the pale, but there are no words to describe the...
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Every day we read more and more about the people of Zimbabwe demanding some justice for the violence that they have experienced at the hands of Mugabe’s people....
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Britain faces paying out millions to detainees who claim they were tortured with the complicity of the security services.
Compensation settlements may be made with up...
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26 June Protest as the International Day against Torture
United Nations has designated 26th June as the International Day against Torture. This day is designated to...
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Violence flared across Mexico, with 19 men executed at a drug rehab center in Chihuahua and 18 men and two women tortured and killed near Tampico, officials reported...
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Occupied Baluchistan: NCRI - Abdolhamid Rigi, a political prisoner who endured a long period of pressure and torture in Iranian regime’s jails, was hanged this...
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A ‘barbaric’ robber who took part in the rape and torture of a young couple in their own home was jailed indefinitely today.
Gavin Gordon, 31, a drug...
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I am your husband, I am your master, the owner of your entity, mind, soul and body, I have every right to do whatever I feel like with you, this is the message which...
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) has to be one of the most barbaric, horrific things one can do to a female. And don’t even dare compare it to male circumcision,...
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Rights group Amnesty International has condemned authorities in the United Arab Emirates over the alleged torture and forced confession of 17 Indians.
They were...
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Argentina’s last dictator was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday for kidnappings and torture during the nation’s 1976-1983 military...
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The March 11 country human rights report released by the American government faults the Ugandan government in at least 18 areas of serious human rights abuse, which...
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Cuban President Raul Castro said Wednesday he regretted the death of a prisoner after a prolonged hunger strike, even as human rights activists reported 30 people were...
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Poor Harpreet Kaur a 19 year old was poor in every sense she had no parents her maternal uncle Paramjeet Singh of Tewar village adopted her, and brought her up. He...
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When I was serving in the police, I often would come across cases where the accused person had spent time with Charlie Ten (Central Intelligence Organisation – CIO)...
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Militant supporters of President Robert Mugabe have set up torture camps in some parts of Zimbabwe and stepped up a campaign to intimidate villagers to back the...
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A man arrested for the Absa Bank robbery on Adderley Street at the weekend claims that Hawks police unit members tortured him.
The 30-year-old alleges that the Hawks...
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One of the most obnoxious features of American political discourse is the self-righteous tone American pundits often adopt. About how the U.S. is a moral leader and...
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Inhuman torture on Baloch political activists in Pakistani jails, their families are extremely worried
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Mother of Shah Nawaz Marri believes that...
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A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.
Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique...
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The case of Shazia’s murder has become a symbol of crime against the children of Pakistani nation. The 12 year old Christian girl was employed by Advocate Naeem...
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AfricaNews reports that the tiny nation of Tunisia is ranked as the most electrified country in Africa with an electricity access rate of 99% ahead of every other...
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President Hugo Chavez denied on Friday that students mounting anti-government protests this week in Caracas and other Venezuelan cities have been subject to torture or...
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The parliamentary select committee investigating unprofessionalism in the Police has finally compiled a draft report in which it accuses the force of mistreating...
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One of the most obnoxious features of American political discourse is the self-righteous tone American pundits often adopt. About how the U.S. is a moral leader and...
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A 26-year-old doctor who exposed the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from a delivery salad laced with an overdose of blood pressure medication,...
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Phillip Carter, the top detainee affairs policy appointee at the Pentagon, has quit his post after just seven months on the job, a Defense Department spokesman said...
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A dark cloud continues to gloom over the media industry in Uganda as government of the National Resistance Movement (NRM,) headed by dictatorial General Yoweri...
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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2009 file photo, MSNBC talk show host Keith Olbermann attends the “Defying Inequality” Broadway concert, a celebrity benefit for equal rights, in New York.
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