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'Full Frontal Attack on Rule of Law': Trump Sanctions Top ICC Officials Probing US War Crimes in Afghanistan

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced sanctions targeting International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and Phakiso Mochochoko, the court's prosecution jurisdiction division director. (Photo: ICC)

'Unconscionable, But Unsurprising': Trump Border Officials Proposed 'Heat Ray' Weapon to Deter Migrants

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

New reporting by the New York Times that border officials suggested using a "microwave weapon" to deter migrants prompted fierce outrage Wednesday.

"Maximum cruelty and maximum harm: That is how this administration operates. It is their policy and their platform," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

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Adding to 2020 Death Toll in US, Trump Has Overseen More Federal Executions This Year Than in Previous 56 Years Combined

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Protesters stand near an intersection not far from the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex to protest where death row inmate Wesley Ira Purkey was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"This raw abuse of federal power to end human life comes at a time when most of...

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'Moral and Intellectual Bankruptcy': Trump Seizes on Bush-Era Torture Memo Author John Yoo's Call for Extralegal Executive Authority

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

"There is a lot of continuity between the Bush and Trump administration,...

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Abe Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action, an execution abolitionist group, protests near the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex where death row inmate Wesley Ira Purkey was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on July 15, Purkey was killed the following morning. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

In Another Dead-of-Night Ruling, US Supreme Court's Right-Wing Majority Approves Execution of Man With Dementia

Bill Pelke of Anchorage, Alaska expresses his opposition to the death penalty during a protest near the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana where Daniel Lewis Lee was scheduled to be executed on July 13, 2020. Lee was ultimately killed the following morning after an overnight decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

In Dead-of-Night Ruling, Supreme Court's Right-Wing Majority OKs First Federal Execution in 17 Years

President Donald Trump makes a statement with Attorney General William Barr in the Rose Garden of the White House on July 11, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Report Exposes Trump DOJ's Secretive Efforts in Obtaining Drugs to Resume Federal Executions

Then-President George W. Bush addresses the nation during his State of the Union address from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2004.

'Belongs in The Hague': Online Disgust Follows Glowing Praise for George W. Bush's Covid-19 Message

Former military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning speaks to the press ahead of a Grand Jury appearance about WikiLeaks, in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 16, 2019.

Chelsea Manning's Lawyers Demand Her Release, Decry 'Punitive' Incarceration

'Critical Moment' as Two Key Architects of CIA Torture Program Testify Under Oath in Guantanamo Bay

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is remaining defiant in the face of months of imprisonment.

Chelsea Manning Says She Is 'Never Backing Down' in Face of US Detention Meant to Break Her

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UN Expert Calls Detention of Chelsea Manning 'Open-Ended, Progressively Severe, Coercive Measure Amounting to Torture'

Placards and messages in support of Julian Assange sit outside Ecuadorian Embassy stands in South Kensington on April 5, 2019 in London.

100+ Doctors Demand Julian Assange Receive Safe Passage to Australian Hospital 'Before It Is Too Late'

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Tortured by CIA and Detained at Gitmo Without Trial, Ahmed Rabbani Gives Haunting Review of 'The Report'—a New Film He'll Likely Never See

A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.

Trump's Child Separation Policy "Absolutely" Violated International Law Says UN Expert

Demonstrators protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London on October 21, 2019.

Julian Assange's Life Is at Risk, Says United Nations Expert, Condemning Detention After Exposing War Crimes

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Secrecy Inc: Activists Sue CIA Over Spying On Classified Report On Covert Torture Program

Because no one has yet been held accountable for U.S. torture practices widely deemed "sadistic and terrifying," two open-government and FOIA activists are suing the CIA for its continued secrecy about its alleged secret surveillance of Senate lawmakers secretly investigating secret Bush-era torture. Welcome to the most transparent - and Kafkaesque - administration in history.

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Amnesty International - USA

Advocates Call for ICE Not to Deport a Pastor to Dangerous, Deadly Conditions

ACLU

Survivors of U.S. Torture and Rendition to be Heard Before International Tribunal

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Close Guantánamo, End Torture

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Rights Attorneys Ask Court to Vacate 2006 Conviction and LWOP Sentence After Khashoggi Revelations

Physicians for Human Rights

Report Documents Pervasive Deficiencies in Medical Care of Detainees at Guantánamo Bay Detention Center

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

ICC Refuses to Investigate Crimes in Afghanistan, Including U.S. Torture

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Lisa Mullenneaux

The Raft of the Medusa

Nozomi Hayase

Assange’s US Extradition Hearing Resumes Monday; Public Needs to Step up to Fight this War on Journalism

Jonathan Cook

For Years, Journalists Cheered Assange’s Abuse. Now They’ve Paved His Path To a US Gulag

Karen Greenberg

Missing in Action: Accountability in Trump's America

Asadullah Haroon

'Give Me Freedom or Give Me Death': 13 Years Without Trial at Guantanamo, My Hunger Strike Is All I Have Left

Nozomi Hayase

Assange’s US Extradition Hearing Opens Monday: Fight for the Free Press Is Now On

Rebecca Gordon

Impunity Guaranteed for Torturers (and Presidents)

Chris Hedges

What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us

Nozomi Hayase

Justice for Assange: Belmarsh Prisoners Remind Us of Our Duty of Civil Disobedience

Nozomi Hayase

The Assange Precedent: The Spark That Lit the Fire in the War on Journalism