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The sort of “dialogue” the US so far has encouraged the Egyptian government in

January 29th, 2011, No Comments

“So I’m lying on the floor, stomach down, legs up, hands behind my back, my cheek on the floor, and then all of a sudden, the closest thing that I could think of really, to describe it, was someone pouring lava on my soles. That felt like nothing I could describe. I flipped from the [...]

A concrete example of US leadership on human rights

September 14th, 2010, No Comments

This op-ed by the US ambassador to the UN human Rights Commission Eileen Donahoe is devoid of reality that you have to laugh, if you don’t want to cry. Every paragraph is an exercise in chutzpah and quote worthy but this is I think the worst:

Time and again human rights defenders underscore the importance of [...]

How to torture children the ministry of justice approved way

July 18th, 2010, No Comments

More news to make you forget any nostalgia for New Labour you may have had. It turns out the Ministry of Justice has written a torture manual on how to restrain children in private prisons, according to the Observer:

Some of the restraint and self-defence measures approved by the Ministry of Justice include ramming knuckles into [...]

Concern troll is concerned

February 9th, 2010, No Comments

Aaronovitch Watch draws my attention to the latest Decent crusade against Amnesty International for having the audacity to actually, you know, work with an ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoner in getting this prison and torture site closed as well as persuading European countries to take in ex-prisoners. According to The Times AI is “damaged” by their partnership [...]

Guantanamo suicides likely murder

January 19th, 2010, No Comments

Via Naked Capitalism comes the news that three Guantanamo Bay detainees who were supposed to have committed suicide together as “an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us” according to Rear Admiral Harry Harris, the then commander of the prison, were more likely to have been murdered:

The official story of the prisoners’ deaths was full [...]

Why is Holland supporting this?

November 30th, 2009, 1 Comment

Seriously. Dutch soldiers are supposedly bringing democracy and freedom to Afghanistan, but the US military still operates black prisons:

An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at [...]

Not even Hitchens voluntered for the sodomy

August 7th, 2009, No Comments

The Beast talks about the dirty secret of American torture: sodomy and how nobody likes to talk about US torture other than waterboarding, as that’s something that you can pretend isn’t real torture anyway:

That’s right; sodomy. Forcible anal penetration. The documentation of this and other forms of sexual humiliation is too extensive to be [...]

I Sentence You To Be Taken From Here and DNA Tested Till You’re Dead. Or Until We Get Our Sample. Whichever’s The Soonest.

June 13th, 2009, No Comments

America may have a Democrat president charming the rest of the world but at home Cheney’s heirs are still in charge. And they’re still gaily torturing away willy-nilly, with judicial approval.
After police lost or contaminated an already willingly given DNA sample, Niagara County Court Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza issued an order requiring the suspect to [...]