torture

CIA practices violate Hippocratic Oath

OPINION by Dr Aayesha J Soni Gul Rahman was a CIA detainee held at a black ops site. He was a detainee that the CIA alleged, like everyone that they captured after 9/11, to be someone with ties to Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups; an offence that has never been[…]

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Egypt’s Brotherhood says member tortured to death

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood says another of its members has been killed by security forces two weeks after the man went missing, the movement has told Al Jazeera. The group on Friday said Egyptian soldiers kidnapped two men, a businessman Tarek Khalil, who was in charge of the Brotherhood’s Development Committee,[…]

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Somali assault case postponed

The case involving seven police officers who kidnapped, assaulted and tortured a Somali born activist in Bellville in 2010 has once again been postponed.  The seven briefly appeared in the Bellville Regional court on Wednesday due to one of their lawyers not being present at the case. The case has[…]

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Torture report unlikely to clip CIA wings: expert

Detailed revelations of the torture used by George W. Bush-era operatives against Al-Qaeda suspects are only the latest morale-sapping scandal to envelop the Central Intelligence Agency. But the searing US Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA enhanced interrogation techniques is not likely to hamstring the effectiveness of the nation’s premier spy[…]

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Calls for prosecution after ‘torture report’

The US Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on secret interrogations and torture of suspects by the CIA from 2001-2007 provides enough new information to justify reopening criminal investigations, rights advocates say. The report, released Tuesday after a three-year congressional investigation, summarises classified CIA cables that described the treatment by Central Intelligence[…]

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US on alert ahead of torture report release

The US has heightened security at its embassies across the globe as it prepares to release a long-delayed report into the CIA’s interrogation of suspects following the September 11, 2001 attacks. The report, scheduled to be released on Tuesday, will be the first public account of the CIA’s use of[…]

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