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  • Statement to the Human Rights Conference on Torture
    2 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Greetings, IHRI (International Human Rights Initiative) conference!
    First I want to congratulate the keynote speaker, the Honorable Congresswoman Sister Cynthia McKinney, on her triumphant return to Congress. But more so I want to personally thank her as being the only Congressional official who had courage or concern enough to make a determined effort toward my release when I was rounded up on Sept. 11, 2001, and held incommunicado from my family, my attorneys and the entire outside (…)

  • AMNESTY ITALY! Sign on
    29 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amnesty the movement of the movements Amnistie
    For medical reasons (impossibility of perfuser serum on base of glucose to a patient in the grip of the aftereffects of a hepatitis), Oreste Scalzone was forced to stop the hunger strike on April 26th in the evening, further to an illness. He pursues to call up to the movement of the movements for the amnesty, after being supported by many emails mainly coming from Italy and now having been reunited by the main confederacies and the Italian (…)

  • UN investigator who exposed US army abuse forced out of his job
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The UN’s top human rights investigator in Afghanistan has been forced out under American pressure just days after he presented a report criticising the US military for detaining suspects without trial and holding them in secret prisons.
    Cherif Bassiouni had needled the US military since his appointment a year ago, repeatedly trying, without success, to interview alleged Taliban and al-Qa’ida prisoners at the two biggest US bases in Afghanistan, Kandahar and Bagram.
    Mr Bassiouni’s report (…)

  • Amnesty Italy/ Call Oreste Scalzone for Life!
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hungry Strike to amnesty Italy. Call for the life!
    * PETITION (EN/ US): translation of the contextualized French version
    APPEAL FOR ORESTE! Initiative of support to the battle of Oreste Scalzone for the amnesty and explicit demand why it suspends the hunger strike and does not put ulteriorly in danger its already difficult state of health. This appeal upon request leaves of friends and companions, preoccupied from the determination of Oreste to continue to oltranza the hunger strike: (…)

  • U.S.: Investigate Rumsfeld, Tenet for Torture
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The United States should name a special prosecutor to investigate the culpability of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and ex-CIA Director George Tenet in cases of detainee torture and abuse, Human Rights Watch said in releasing a new report today. The report, Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees, is issued on the eve of the first anniversary of the publication of the Abu Ghraib photos (April 28). It presents substantial evidence warranting (…)

  • Army Clears Top Abu Ghraib Case Officers
    23 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT BURNS
    The Army has cleared four top officers - including the three-star general who commanded all U.S. forces in Iraq - of all allegations of wrongdoing in connection with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, officials said Friday.
    Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who became the senior commander in Iraq in June 2003, two months after the fall of Baghdad, had been faulted in earlier investigations for leadership lapses that may have contributed to prisoner abuse. He is the highest ranking (…)

  • ‘Wish Lists’ Drafted by U.S. Interrogators Urged Torture of Iraqis
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Apr 20 - A series of e-mail messages between Army interrogators and intelligence officers in Iraq during 2003 — in which soldiers advocated the use of brutal interrogation techniques such as low voltage electric shock and beatings with phone books — appears to have helped spawn the widespread torture and abuse of Iraqi detainees by US forces.
    The Washington Post reports that an August 2003 e-mail sent to US interrogators by Captain William Ponce, an officer at Army headquarters in Baghdad, (…)

  • The Psychodynamics of Occupation and the Abuse at Abu Ghraib: An Interpretation After One Year of Revelations
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Soldz
    There are various explanations for what went on at Abu Ghraib. The official US position is that a "few bad apples" among the reservist military police (MPs) there went out of control, violating orders to treat the prisoners humanely — "Animal House on the night shift," as former defense secretary James Schlesinger described it.(1) The MP defendants claim that they were following orders to soften up the prisoners as a prelude to interrogation. Investigative journalists have (…)

  • Destroy Abu Ghraib!
    6 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This weekend’s attacks on the Abu Ghraib prison facility should be welcomed as a direct assault on the foremost icon of Bush’s War of Terror. Abu Ghraib has the same meaning to Iraqis and free people across the globe as did the Bastille to French citizens prior to the Revolution; an enduring symbol of arbitrary state power and cruelty.
    Under Saddam the prison could be dismissed as the natural exponent of a tyrannical regime bent on removing political opponents. Now, however, under the (…)

  • Why we’ll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos
    5 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Matt Welch
    The images, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress, depict "acts that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel, and inhuman." After Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) viewed some of them in a classified briefing, he testified that his "stomach gave out." NBC News reported that they show "American soldiers beating one prisoner almost to death, apparently raping a female prisoner, acting inappropriately with a dead body, and taping Iraqi guards raping young boys." (…)