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A Jordanian citizen died after being beaten by police, the second time this week, a police spokesman said Sunday, casting a rare spotlight on the nation's U.S.-trained security forces, that may also have worked as proxy jailers for the CIA.
A mother of seven is accused of running a house of horrors for pets at her suburban Long Island home, forcing her children to help torture them and burying at least 20 dogs in her backyard — animals neighbors now fear were beloved pets that mysteriously disappeared over the years.
A former Bush administration lawyer is asking a federal court to toss a lawsuit by a convicted terrorist who accuses him of drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture.
Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners.
A Denver center that offered counseling and legal help to immigrants who sought asylum after they were tortured in their home countries has closed after losing its federal grant.
Police are accusing a 22-year-old upstate New York man of hanging his girlfriend's four-month-old kitten with a belt and making a video of the animal struggling.
A Canadian engineer cannot sue the United States after being mistaken for a terrorist when he was changing planes in New York a year after the 2001 terrorist attacks, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
A woman pleaded guilty Monday to the Illinois torture killing of a pregnant, developmentally impaired mother who police say was beaten with a plunger handle, burned with a hot glue gun and used for target practice with a BB pistol.
Trent Reznor, R.E.M., Pearl Jam and The Roots are among the musicians joining the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo and are backing an effort to have documents detailing the use of music used in conjunction with torture there declassified.
Seven secret paragraphs detailing the alleged torture of a former Guantanamo detainee should be disclosed, a British High Court has ruled — a decision that could ignite fresh criticism of U.S. interrogation practices and raise prickly questions for the British government.
Britain's foreign intelligence agency MI6 reported one of its officers to authorities amid new concerns over the country's possible complicity in torture, prompting police to launch an investigation Friday, officials said.
A judge says the man accused of ordering the murder of a California journalist must stand trial on separate kidnapping and torture charges.
A U.N. anti-torture investigator said Thursday he has received credible claims that Iranian protesters detained after the June 12 presidential elections were abused in prison.
Britain's foreign spy chief denied in an interview broadcast Monday that agents tortured terror suspects or that Britain colluded with countries that use torture.
The British government has refused to answer questions about whether its spies were complicit in the torture of terrorist suspects, and only an independent inquiry can clear the air and restore public confidence, a committee of lawmakers said Tuesday.
Sen. John McCain says he's against opening a criminal investigation into whether CIA officers tortured detainees during the Bush administration.
Prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates gave a rare progress report into their ongoing investigation into the highly sensitive torture allegations against a member of the country's ruling family that has shocked this Gulf nation.
A coalition of advocacy groups is asking the District of Columbia and New York bar associations to disbar three government attorneys for approving and enabling the CIA's harsh interrogation program.
Kenyan security forces tortured hundreds of civilians and raped at least a dozen women during a three-day operation to disarm militias in the country's remote northeast last year, a right group claimed Monday.
Britain has abandoned some attempts to gather intelligence from detainees held overseas for fear they may be abused, the foreign secretary said Tuesday.
President Barack Obama's pick for intelligence chief at the Homeland Security Department withdrew from consideration Friday amid questions about his role in the CIA's interrogations of suspected terrorists.
Keith Olbermann's offer for a donation if Sean Hannity undergoes waterboarding is off the table, the money gone instead to radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller's charity of choice after Mancow's disquieting experience with the interrogation technique.
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter says transcripts should be made when the CIA briefs members of Congress in closed meetings.
An inmate who claimed police tortured him into confessing to two murders he didn't commit was granted a new trial Friday after 18 years behind bars.
A coalition of liberal groups filed petitions Monday seeking disbarment of Bush administration attorneys linked to memos on harsh interrogation techniques of detainees.
BBC News : Iran doctor 'committed suicide'Iran's police chief says a doctor who died at a detention centre shut in July after the deaths of several opposition supporters committed suicide.
Canadian officials discussed torture in 2006 - thestar.comOTTAWA – Top Canadian officials discussed in 2006 whether the then-governor of Kandahar was involved in the torture of prisoners and dismissed the concern, The Canadian Press has learned.
Somali woman, 20, stoned to death by Islamic militants after admitting affair with boy friendA Somali woman of 20 has been stoned to death after admitting she had an affair, an Islamic militant judge said today. The woman was a divorcee - but even though she was no longer married, her affair was seen as adultery in the eyes of Somalia's extremist interpretation of Shari …
Canada ignored torture warnings: Diplomat - thestar.comOTTAWA – A former senior Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan has levelled bombshell allegations suggesting the military knowingly handed detainees to Afghan authorities who allowed them to be tortured.
Church of Scientology accused of torture and forced abortionsKevin Rudd, the Australian Prime Minister, has voiced "concerns" over the Church of Scientology after a senator detailed explosive allegations about the organisation, accusing it of torture, embezzlement and coerced abortions.
Obama admits Guantanamo won't close by Jan. deadlineBEIJING -- President Obama directly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay will not close by the January deadline he set, but he said he hoped to still achieve that goal sometime next year.
Honour killing theory as mother-of-two is found dumped in the street with her hand severedA mother was found dying in a street with serious head wounds and her right hand cut off as she went to pick up her children after work.
Islam Bashers RepentWhat does it take to make Islam bashers mend their ways? Why don't these folks come to their senses and see Islam as a religion of peace and praise the God of Abraham for continuing his beneficence on humanity by sending Muhammad to guide and humanize us? Well, just a few probl …
Obama Administration Blocks Release of Detainee Abuse PhotosDefense Secretary Robert Gates has blocked the public release of any more pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S.
Four years for torture teenagers Three youths who tortured a 14-year-old girl in a car park and filmed the attack on a mobile phone have each been sentenced to four years' detention. The attackers were two 14-year-old girls and a 13-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
BBC | Gates blocks abuse photos releaseThe US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has blocked the publication of further images of US soldiers abusing foreign detainees.
Obama Signs Gates' Ban On Torture Photos - Hides American War CrimesCan we protest now Liberals, or do you need another year to realize Obama is a rat?
Britain's Abu Ghraib: Did Britain collude with US in abuse of Iraqis?The fresh allegations raise important questions about collusion between Britain and America over the ill-treatment of Iraqi prisoners during the insurgency.
Gitmo interrogations spark battle over tacticsSpeaking publicly for the first time, senior U.S. law enforcement investigators say they waged a long but futile battle inside the Pentagon to stop coercive and degrading treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. MSNBC.com's Bill Dedman reports.
Does Islam Breed Violence?There is a division of the house. On one side are the politically correct in government, the leftist mainstream media, and a raft of Islamist apologists. One and all are tripping over each other in reassuring us that the mass murderers such as Maj.
Claim: CIA Sent Prisoners Abroad to Be Boiled Alive and 'Raped with Broken Bottles'"I'm talking of people being raped with broken bottles," he said at a lecture late last month that was re-broadcast by the Real News Network. "I'm talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession.
Suspects Fight Indictment In Torture Of 16-Year-Old BoyTRACY, Calif. -- Four people accused of torturing a captive teenager at a Tracy home will be in court today to challenge the indictment against them.
Soldiers 'hit and kicked' MousaA former British soldier has admitted for the first time that he saw two of his colleagues kicking and hitting an Iraqi prisoner shortly before he died.
Targeting female teachersTwo female teachers were shot dead on Thursday in Bajaur Agency, after masked men dragged them out of their vehicles and opened fire. The two women had been going home from their government school. At least two men accompanying them were also injured.
Mexican prison guard arrested for torture; abuse sparked deadly riots that killed 2 Americans Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners.
Is Your Favorite Song a Torture Device?I imagine that any song played for 20 days on repeat would be torturous.
We "broke the law," admits CIA agent convicted of renditionOne of the Americans convicted in absentia by an Italian court for her part in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric by CIA operatives has acknowledged they "broke the law" and complained she was given insufficient protection by her superiors in Washington.
Claim: CIA Sent Prisoners Abroad to Be Boiled Alive and 'Raped with Broken Bottles'Former British ambassador alleges CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan.
Pentagon Played Aerosmith and Nine Inch Nails to Torture Detainees; Artists Complain Will listening to hours of Britney Spears, Nine Inch Nails, or even the Meow Mix jingle make you lose your mind? That's exactly what military officials were hoping for when they blasted hours of loud music to prisoners detained at Guantánamo Bay and in Iraq and Afghanistan pri …
A court decision that reflects what type of country the U.S. isIt's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft (.pdf).
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