Tag: Torture
Jean Maria Arrigo, Who Exposed Psychologists’ Ties to Torture, Dies at 79
Risking ostracism by her colleagues, she fought against the use of psychologists in coercive interrogations by the military and the C.I.A.
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Torture by U.S. Was Key Issue in Bali Bombing Plea Deal
How prisoners were treated has complicated prosecutors’ efforts to hold trials in the Sept. 11 and the U.S.S. Cole bombing cases at Guantánamo.
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Military Judge to Rule on C.I.A. Torture Program in Sept. 11 Case
Lawyers argued over the rare legal doctrine in an effort to dismiss the case at the start of pretrial hearings in the Sept. 11 case at Guantánamo Bay. [...]
How a Judge’s Ruling on Torture Imperils a Guantánamo Prosecution Strategy
In late 2006, in an effort to turn the page on a legacy of state-sponsored torture, prosecutors for the George W. Bush administration began an experim [...]
Judge Throws Out Accused Bomber’s Confession as Derived from Torture
The military judge in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case on Friday threw out confessions the Saudi defendant had made to federal agents at Guantánamo Bay af [...]
Foreign Office ‘failed to protect’ Matthew Hedges from UAE torture
Visits to Mr Hedges by British Embassy officials were always supervised by guards "who told him what to say" but officials did not take account of "cl [...]
Judge to Decide Whether Taint of C.I.A. Torture Extended to Guantánamo
More than 22 years after Al Qaeda bombed the U.S.S. Cole and nearly 12 years after a prisoner was first charged with plotting the attack, a judge hear [...]
Guantánamo Case Nearing a Decision on the Lasting Effects of Torture
By the time the prisoner accused of plotting the U.S.S. Cole bombing boasted about his role in the attack during interrogations at Guantánamo Bay, his [...]
U.N. Group Condemns Torture of the Guantánamo Prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
The NewsA United Nations human rights panel has issued a damning report that blames the United States and seven other nations for the C.I.A.’s “tortur [...]
Minister accused of abject U-turn on Saudi torture comments
Maya Foa, the director of Reprieve, asked "what happened to change the government's mind? At the very least, going back on the minister's principled d [...]
Bahrain: British taxpayers backing security services accused of torture
State bodies accused of serious abuses in the Gulf nation have received £1.8m from the UK this year.
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Prosecutor Who Sought to Use Evidence Derived From Torture Leaves Cole Case
The Biden administration had adopted a policy excluding all evidence obtained through torture; the prosecutor argued the law allowed it.
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UK spy agencies accused of tip-off that led to torture
Jagtar Singh Johal, a Sikh activist from Scotland, was seized by Indian police in 2017 and remains in jail.
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Priti Patel insists Rwanda is safe despite adviser’s torture warning
The official was looking at revisions to the government's report into Rwanda's human rights record and in an email sent to colleagues on 26 April - tw [...]
Biden Administration Rejects Use of Torture in Guantánamo Terror Trial
Mr. Nashiri’s lawyers were exploring a potential defense theory that the United States had already killed plotters of the Cole attack who were more se [...]