If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confidentiality policy gives detaining powers legitimacy in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay’s Camp X-Ray, and many Israeli detention centers. The policy, in [...]

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Reuters Alertnet:
A third of all prisoners in Jordan have been jailed without formal charges or facing a trial, a prominent Jordanian human rights body said on Thursday.
The report, drawn up by the state-financed National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) said some of the 2,884 inmates mentioned in the report have been in prison without charges [...]

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Background:
The UK government has been quick to deny that they practice, or tolerate the practice of Torture. So it is perhaps not suprising that they are determined that you should not see the following documents:
http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/telegrams.pdf
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BlairWatch is asking bloggers to publish the memos from Craig Murray, Britain’s former ambassador to Uzbekistan, detailing how the Uzbek Secret [...]

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Military autopsy reports provide indisputable proof that detainees are being tortured to death while in US military custody. Yet the US corporate media are covering it with the seriousness of a garage sale for the local Baptist Church.
A recent American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) posting of one of forty-four US military autopsy reports reads as [...]

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Well, I guess that settles that.
“We do not torture,” said President Bush on Monday.
Never mind all those torture pictures from Abu Ghraib.
Never mind all those torture stories from Guant�namo Bay.
Never mind the 2002 Justice Department memo that sought to justify torture.
Never mind reports of U.S. officials sending detainees to other countries for torture.
Never mind Dick [...]

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Bush always claimed that he will refuse any bills amendment (such as this one) which would limit the treatment of detainees in his “war on terror” because he says they are “not needed” and because they don’t torture anyone, right?
Then why are Bush and Cheney asking for an exemption for the CIA on the amendment, [...]

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Is it ever right for Americans to inflict cruel and degrading treatment on suspected terrorist detainees?
From Joseph Farah’s - Christian wimps:
“We read credible reports - some from FBI agents - that prisoners have been stripped naked, sexually humiliated, chained to the floor and left to defecate on themselves,” he writes. “These and other practices like [...]

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CFL ALERT: OPPOSE THE TORTURE OF DETAINEES IN IRAQ: ASK YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO SUPPORT THE MCCAIN AMENDMENT.

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SEND OUR PREWRITTEN LETTER NOW:
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/CFLWeb/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1060

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SEND YOUR PREWRITTEN LETTER NOW, OR WRITE YOUR OWN:
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/CFLWeb/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1019

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That is the plea of the 408 Moroccan prisoners of war currently held by the Polisario Front in the Western Sahara. With many having been incarcerated for over two decades, they are currently the longest-serving POWs in the world. Six recently released POWs who met with The Washington Times told their tragic tales of torture, [...]

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“You’ve shown nothing but racism because I am an Arab and a Muslim,” the ABC quoted him as writing. “I am absolutely sure I will be exonerated and will face you and confront you before the law when you will be asked about your failure to assist me.” - Tallaal Adrey Australian citizen who says [...]

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Lawyer of three British ‘torture victims’ moves to seize Saudi assets in Britain over legal case. Lawyer will “start the process” this week of seizing some Britain-based Saudi state assets, which include Saudi Arabian Airlines.

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A girl aged 8 was stuffed into a bag after being denounced as a witch and was moments from being drowned in a canal by her family, a court was told yesterday. She had been starved, beaten, cut with a knife and had chilli peppers rubbed in her eyes in the plot to kill her, [...]

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Some 115 Bangladeshi workers are being subjected to torture at a garment factory in Jordan, alleged one of the workers, who recently returned home.

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Israel is the only country in the world which has legalized per law the use of torture and maltreatment during the examination of for political reasons arrested prisoners which means that in Israel prisoners are systematically maltreated and tortured during the interrogation.
Nerws headlines:

Prisoners to Go on Two-Day Strike to Mark Prisoner Day

UN calls for release [...]

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Genevieve Cora Fraser “The use of prison is central to the occupation,” Kay said. “Since1967 , Israel has detained more than600 , 000Palestinians. Since the intifada until 30June of this year,2 , 650children have been arrested and imprisoned.” Under Israeli jurisdiction, Palestinian children have no right to a lawyer nor are they permitted to know [...]

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Google Censorship Abu Gharib Photos.
Fallujah Video has congressman calling for reporter ban.

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What liberal infidels will never understand about the president.
by Rick Perlstein
Here are some things that Christopher Nunneley, a conservative activist in Birmingham, Alabama, believes. That some time in June, apparently unnoticed by the world media, George Bush negotiated an end to the civil war in Sudan. That Bill Clinton is “lazy” and Teresa Heinz Kerry [...]

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