New Book Warns Julian Assange Is Being Tortured
By Neenah Payne Julian Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks is a site created for whistleblowers to…
By Neenah Payne Julian Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks is a site created for whistleblowers to…
By Robert Pallitto The US Supreme Court ruled recently on the government’s use of the state secrets doctrine in an opinion that will make it…
By Brett Wilkins One of the psychologists paid tens of millions of dollars by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to oversee the interrogation of prisoners…
By Jessica Corbett This is a breaking story… Please check back for possible updates… Human rights advocates on Thursday sharply condemned the Supreme Court’s decision…
By Andrew P. Napolitano After a jury in 2006 declined to impose the death penalty on Zacarias Moussaoui, who had just pleaded guilty to being…
By Jessica Corbett A report released Sunday, nearly 20 years after the first prisoners arrived at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, details “systematic abuses carried out…
By Andrea Germanos Seven out of the eight members of a military jury called for clemency to be granted in the case of a Guantanamo…
By Raymond Bonner One of the longest-held prisoners in the U.S. global war on terror is finally getting a day in court. Sort of. The…
By Andrew P. Napolitano For the first time in American history, a federal judge last week authorized the government to admit as evidence in a…
Lawyers representing Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed al Qahtani are urging a federal judge to deny an effort by the Trump administration in its final days to reverse a…
By Janet Phelan In his report to the General Assembly of the UN on October 15, Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer delivered an incisive…
By Janet Phelan The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, has issued a report which gives official acknowledgement—possibly for the first time—to aspects…
By Whitney Webb New allegations have surfaced claiming that Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet or Shabak, is engaged in the brutal torture of Palestinian detainees,…
By Janet Phelan The reports are in and the conclusion is unavoidable—a number of American citizens are stating they have been tortured by their own…