The Guardian: Mother of Guantánamo detainee ‘still waiting’ for US and German apologies. >"New film sheds light _...Read More_

>"A German court sentenced a Syrian army colonel to life in prison in the first-ever torture trial against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights said in Koblenz on Thursday."

Anwar Raslan, a former colonel loyal to the regime who later defected and gained asylum in Germany, was deemed by the _...Read More_

>"More than 20 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Supreme Court seemed receptive Wednesday to claims from the Biden administration that it can shield information pertaining to the detention of Abu Zubaydah, a former associate of _...Read More_

>"A Chinese policeman turned whistleblower has revealed rare details on what he described as a systematic campaign of torture against ethnic Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region's detention camps -- claims China has denied for years."

>"A Taliban commander invited the media to inspect the site where America plotted killing raids and tortured prisoners"

"Forces aligned to the Ethiopian government have subjected hundreds of women and girls to sexual violence, Amnesty International found." "It’s clear that rape and sexual violence have been used as a weapon of war to inflict lasting physical _...Read More_

Fatouma was at home with her children in the town of Bambari when the firing began, on the afternoon of February 15. Terrified, she gathered them up and fled to the nearby mosque, thinking it would be a safe refuge in the Central African _...Read More_

"Eyad al-Gharib, a former secret police officer, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in a case that rights groups have hailed as a landmark."

>"It was minutes into India's Independence Day when police stormed a slum in the western state of Gujarat where Hira Bajania, 65, was sleeping. In the black of night, he was dragged from his home, taken to a nearby police station and _...Read More_

“Such deprivation of liberty does not constitute a circumscribed sanction for a specific offense, but an open-ended progressively severe measure of coercion,” Melzer, the U.N. special rapporteur, wrote of Manning’s treatment. It does not _...Read More_

Based on actual music used by the CIA during interrogation and torture at Guantánamo Bay

In 2013, a British man was arrested for planning to kidnap and brutally murder a soldier. The suspect, who had a criminal history, had posted messages on social media in support of violent jihad. In a search of his residence, the police had _...Read More_