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US federal appellate court expands immunity for CIA contractors in Guantanamo detainee case
02 Jul 2025 05:29 GMT
… sought damages for suffering torture, using the Alien Tort …
Originally designated as a terrorist and al-Qaeda leader, … subjected to interrogation tactics including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and … held today in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under …
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Legalizing Torture: The Brutal Reality of Ethiopia’s New Bill
01 Jul 2025 07:33 GMT
… Human Rights Watch, noted that the law conflated peaceful protest with terrorism and … waterboarding and prolonged isolation. These tactics, later exposed and condemned as torture … and human rights could not be higher.
Legal Irony
In law school, torture …
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UPDATE: Bosnian man cleared of torture charges to appear in court for plea deal hearing
30 Jun 2025 22:02 GMT
… previous cases involving forms of torture, like waterboarding, during closing arguments.
… human rights violators to justice and ensuring that perpetrators of torture … superseding indictment’s torture charges are serious human rights abuses that cannot …
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Abington couple facing jail for waterboarding incident while disciplining child
30 Jun 2025 19:20 GMT
… old daughter with a waterboarding technique that impeded the … …knew this was a torture technique used in war” … her daughter with a waterboarding technique. She claimed she … which focused solely on the waterboarding incident.
Originally Published: June …
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Syrian Network: Torture Death Toll Surpasses 45,000 Since 2011
27 Jun 2025 00:56 GMT
… of Victims of Torture, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has published … mounting toll of deaths from torture and inhumane detention conditions.
According … of torture, ranging from physical beatings and electric shocks to waterboarding, hanging …
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UPDATE: Bosnian man cleared of torture charges reaches plea deal for passport fraud charges
21 Jun 2025 00:28 GMT
… previous cases involving forms of torture, like waterboarding, during closing arguments.
… human rights violators to justice and ensuring that perpetrators of torture … superseding indictment’s torture charges are serious human rights abuses that cannot …
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Torture and Forced Disappearances: Inside Wagner’s Secret Prisons in Mali
20 Jun 2025 09:15 GMT
… tortured on August 5, 2024. The guards alternated waterboarding … hunting down” and “neutralizing” terrorists through its operations.
“Prisons … People (CD-DPA), human rights organization
“Most people die … (CD-DPA), a human rights organization that recorded 304 …
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They keep claiming that torture doesn't work: so what is up with this "crucify" thing?
15 Jun 2025 20:04 GMT
… ... even with respect to water boarding that harms no one. … the fact that "torture" unlocked information leading … policies that secretly "torture" in the Roman … repeatedly claim that "torture" and enhanced interrogation …
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Hundreds of civilians were tortured by Wagner mercenaries in Mali: report
12 Jun 2025 13:51 GMT
… Wagner kidnapped, detained and tortured hundreds of civilians, … in neighbouring Mauritania about waterboarding, beatings with electrical … illegal detentions and systematic torture, which sometimes led … been regularly denounced by human rights groups.
A UN …
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Guantanamo inmates accuse UK of ‘complicity’ in CIA torture
11 Jun 2025 22:11 GMT
… : Lawyers for two Guantanamo detainees accused UK intelligence … ” by UK-based anti-torture organisation Redress, is being … the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba more than … the most brutal torture,” the lawyer said, citing waterboarding, sleep deprivation …