CIA report has new details of prisoner abuse
- 23 Aug 2009 07:52 - Staff Reporter
- CIA interrogators carried out mock executions and threatened an al-Qaeda commander with a gun and an electric drill, according to an internal report.
Ethiopia plot suspects tortured, say relatives
- 15 Jun 2009 14:50 - Barry Malone
- A group of men accused of plotting to topple Ethiopia's government were tortured in prison during lengthy interrogations, relatives said on Monday.
Obama rejects release of detainee abuse photos
- 14 May 2009 14:20 - Staff Reporter
- President Barack Obama has reversed a decision to release photos showing abuse of "war on terror" detainees.
Top US democrat under fire over 'torture' briefings
- 13 May 2009 10:23 - Emmanuel Parisse
- US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has come under fire over whether she has long known about harsh interrogation tactics used in Bush's "war on terror".
It might be fun to see Cheney behind bars for condoning torture
- 24 Apr 2009 07:24 - Alexander Chancellor
- The fact that waterboarding was repeated so many times on two people suggests that Bush officials lied when they said its use was strictly controlled.
Freed Guantánamo detainee says US behind his torture
- 23 Feb 2009 16:55 - Staff Reporter
- Binyam Mohamed, a UK resident held at Guantánamo Bay for more than four years, was released and put on a plane to home on Monday.
UN body criticises China over torture allegations
- 22 Nov 2008 09:23 - Staff Reporter
- A UN body has expressed deep concern over allegations of widespread torture in China and called on the country to fully probe rights abuses.
China defends record to UN torture watchdog
- 10 Nov 2008 14:11 - Laura MacInnis
- China defended itself against allegations of torture before a UN watchdog on Monday, saying it had "zero tolerance" for abuses in its police stations.
Kenyan police arrest torture pathologist
- 17 Aug 2008 09:44 - Staff Reporter
- Kenya police have detained a pathologist hired by the state-run rights watchdog to probe claims that security forces tortured civilians.
Coney Island gets torture stall
- 13 Aug 2008 08:29 - Ed Pilkington
- Coney Island, the quaintly rotting amusement park frequented by millions of New Yorkers every summer, has acquired a new attraction.
The way Britain wages war
- 05 Aug 2008 00:00 - John Pilger
- The British public remains largely unaware of the industrial killing of civilians in Britain's modern colonial wars.
Kenya army accused of torture
- 17 Jun 2008 10:00 - Daniel Wallis
- Kenyan troops fighting rebels in a remote area are killing and torturing civilians, a medical charity said on Tuesday.
Go now, Mbeki
- 15 May 2008 16:37 - Staff Reporter
- The horror facing Movement for Democratic Change members in Zimbabwe became apparent this week.
