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John Kiriakou: Never forget America’s torture legacy
CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou joins Robert Scheer to discuss the dark history of America’s torture program, and the normalization of the Espionage Act to attack those that expose the secrets of the state.
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Potential accountability for British intelligence’s involvement in CIA torture
Recent developments suggest that British intelligence agents might finally face legal consequences for their lesser-known involvement in the CIA’s global torture program.
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Takeaways from the UN Special Rapporteur report on Guantanamo
On June 26—the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture—the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, released the final report of her technical visit to the United States, which included unprecedented access to the Guantanamo detention facility.
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British intelligence in the dock for CIA torture
Recent developments raise the prospect that British intelligence agents could finally face justice for their little-known role in the CIA’s global torture program.
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Communist Party of Swaziland continues campaign to boycott ‘farcical’ elections despite arrests and torture
In Swaziland, only individuals approved by the local chiefs of King Mswati III can contest elections, and the parliament cannot hold the monarchy accountable. Pro-democracy activists have been calling for a boycott of the elections which are scheduled for August.
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Did the CIA train Ukrainian torturers?
The matter raises suspicions about a possible “instruction” that would be transmitted by American intelligence to Ukrainian neo-Nazis on “how to torture”.
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Alex Saab is being tortured in the U.S., denounces Diplomat’s wife Camila (+Oscar López Rivera)
Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab “is suffering torture and inhumane treatment everyday in the United States,” decried his wife Camila Fabri Saab during a solidarity event for the diplomat, hosted last Friday, February 3, by the US-based human rights organization Alliance for Global Justice.
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They’re killing him: Assange’s stroke reveals the Western version of the Saudi bone saw
They are killing Julian Assange. Experts agree that they are killing him. Assange’s stroke is just another item on the mountain of evidence we already had for this.
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There is one place in Cuba where torture occurs
Chilling testimony of the torture and abuses committed against Majid Khan, at the illegal U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo, was recently presented by the prisoner.
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The longstanding complicity of the Israeli Medical Association with torture in Israel
There is not even-handed regulation of doctors worldwide regarding complicity with torture. The case of the Israeli Medical Association serves as a prime example.
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The CIA’s outsourced torture is lost to history
The CIA’s notorious practice of kidnapping and displacement gave birth to the post-9/11 torture program. We know nearly nothing about it.
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‘The Mauritanian’ rekindles debate over Gitmo detainees’ torture–with 40 still held there
“The Mauritanian,” directed by Kevin Macdonald, is the first feature film to dramatize how the war on terror became a war in court.
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George Floyd “narrated his death,” says attorney at International Inquiry
George Floyd, who was publicly tortured and lynched by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, narrated his own death, legendary civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump told the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States at its January 25 hearing.
