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…
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Supreme Court Expands Government Secrecy Powers in Torture-Related Case
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…
“All of These Guys Belong in Prison” — CIA Torture Described in Vivid Detail by Psychologist
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…
“Disgraceful”: Supreme Court Sides With Hiding CIA Torture
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…
Military Torturers at Guantanamo Bay
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…
“20 Years of US Torture and Counting”: Report Details Post-9/11 Abuse at Gitmo and Beyond
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…
Gitmo Jurors Liken CIA Torture to Acts by “Most Abusive Regimes in Modern History”
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…
When Will the US Acknowledge its Secret Torture Site in Poland?
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…
Torture Enters the Courtroom
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…
Gitmo Torture Survivor Asks Court to Reject Eleventh-Hour Trump Bid to Deny Medical Evaluation
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…
Special Rapporteur on Torture’s Report to UN General Assembly Indicts Human Self-Interest
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…
Media Watch: Groundbreaking UN Torture Report Shunned by Mainstream
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…
Gruesome Details Emerge of Israel’s Torture of Palestinian Prisoners
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,…
UN Receives Reports That US Citizens Have Been Tortured
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…