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  • Green light for Iraqi prison abuse came right from the top
    3 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Classified documents show the former US military chief in Iraq personally sanctioned measures banned by the Geneva Conventions. Andrew Buncombe reports from Washington
    03 April 2005
    America’s leading civil liberties group has demanded an investigation into the former US military commander Iraq after a formerly classified memo revealed that he personally sanctioned a series of coercive interrogation techniques outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. The group claims that his directives were (…)

  • The British after the Americans are torturing the Iraqis
    2 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The photos of the British soldiers torturing some Iraqi detainees show the hidden page of the military intervention ( invasion ) in Iraq. The photos were released after 20 months of the committed abuses. This 22 photos form the second set of photos of the British troops, which has been disclosed. There are much larger number of photos, and much larger number of abuses were not photographed. The Iraqis themselves know the size of these brutal crimes. The inhuman acts have initiated violent (…)

  • Is No One Accountable?
    28 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush administration is desperately trying to keep the full story from emerging. But there is no longer any doubt that prisoners seized by the U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere have been killed, tortured, sexually humiliated and otherwise grotesquely abused.
    These atrocities have been carried out in an atmosphere in which administration officials have routinely behaved as though they were above the law, and thus accountable to no one. People have been rounded up, stripped, (…)

  • Vanunu cause to be raised at Holyrood
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The issue of the freedom of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower, is to be raised in the Scottish Parliament.
    Last week Mr Vanunu was charged with violating the terms of his release from prison three days after giving an interview in Jerusalem to The Herald. Mr Vanunu was sent to prison for 18 years after revealing to the world that Israel was developing nuclear weapons.
    He was freed last April, but is forbidden to speak to foreign reporters and cannot leave east (…)

  • Abuse taped at Guantanamo, as ’explosive’ as Abu Ghraib
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VIDEO footage of US military treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay will reveal many cases of substantial abuse as "explosive as anything from Abu Ghraib", a lawyer said today. Adelaide lawyer Stephen Kenny, who represented Australian David Hicks during the early part of his detention at the military prison in Cuba, told a law conference today that 500 hours of videotape of prisoners at the US base existed.
    The full story of abuse at Guantanamo Bay would not be told until the tapes were (…)

  • U.S. May End Up Scrutinized at UN Human Rights Meet
    15 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Richard Waddington
    GENEVA - The United States, usually a finger-pointer on human rights, could end up in the dock itself over reports of torture and abuse in its war on terror when the United Nations begins a worldwide scrutiny this week.
    Activists, such as the New York-based Human Rights Watch, are urging members of the Commission on Human Rights to condemn Washington for mistreatment of prisoners detained abroad.
    If any such move emerges during the commission’s annual session, (…)

  • The Man Who Fought for the Forgotten
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Peter Benenson 1921-2005 Founder of Amnesty International
    by Antony Barnett
    There are not many newspaper articles that can genuinely claim to have changed the world for the better. But on Sunday, 28 May 1961, The Observer published a campaigning piece on the front of its Weekend Review section.
    The article was entitled ’The Forgotten Prisoners’ and it was by Peter Benenson, a 33-year old Eton-educated London lawyer.
    Benenson had been angered after learning about two Portuguese (…)

  • SOLDIERS GUILTY OF "BRUTAL AND REVOLTING" IRAQI ABUSE
    25 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A MILITARY court today found two British soldiers guilty of abusing Iraqi prisoners in acts depicted in a series of sickening photographs.
    The behaviour of Mark Cooley and Daniel Kenyon and two other soldiers was described as "brutal", "cruel" and "revolting" by the military judge.
    And he added that the shocking pictures, used as evidence in the trial, had "undoubtedly tarnished the international reputation of the British Army and to some extent the British nation too".
    A panel of (…)

  • Regaining My Humanity - Conscientious Objector released from prison
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We were delighted to receive a phone call yesterday, February 15, from Camilo Mejia, letting us know that he has just been released from prison. Some of you might remember Camilo, a courageous soldier who spent more than 7 years in the military, 8 months fighting in Iraq, came home for a 2-week furlough, and decided that he could not-in good conscience-return to Iraq. He applied for Conscientious Objector status, and was declared a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International. But the US (…)

  • Guantanamo Detainee Claims Confession Under Torture
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Australian 60 Minutes program - Channel Nine - transcript of interview with ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib. Transcript: Under suspicion February 13, 2005
    Reporter: Tara Brown Producer: Stephen Taylor Mamdouh Habib. INTRO TARA BROWN: Everyone has an opinion. Either Mamdouh Habib is a dangerous terrorist who should have been left to rot in jail or he is an innocent man persecuted because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s one or the other, simple as (…)