U.S. Legal Actions, UK Inquiry: Noose Tightens on Torture Criminals
Before taking up the question of the UK torture inquiry, announced the other day, we should consider other important developments on the anti-torture front today. Omar Khadr, captured as a child,...
View ArticleUK on U.S. Rendition: “Is it clear that detention, rather than killing, is...
A series of documents released on July 14 in the UK Binyam Mohamed civil case, Al Rawi and Others v Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Others, have produced a series of explosive revelations, reported...
View ArticleWhile Texas Dismisses Torture Charges Against James Mitchell, Other...
Danny Robbins at Associated Press reported last Friday that the Texas State Board of Examiners dismissed a licensing complaint filed by a Texas psychologist against former SERE psychologist James...
View ArticleGuantanamo Teen Was Tortured, Asked To Spy On Other Detainees
According to information at the Reprieve web site, “Chadian citizen, Mohammed el Gharani was the youngest prisoner in Guantánamo Bay, arrested when he was just 14. In January 2009, a federal judge...
View ArticleUK Torture Inquiry Farce on Last Legs, While Rendition to “Killing” Remains...
Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor at the UK Guardian are reporting that the widely heralded 2010 announcement of a British government official inquiry into UK torture is facing a boycott by British...
View ArticlePrison Ships, Ghost Prisoners, and Obama’s Interrogation Program
It was back in June 2008 that the British legal charity Reprieve issued a report alleging “the United States may have used as many as 17 ships as floating prisons.” Moreover, the group claimed “about...
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