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As Misogynist, Homophobic Bolsonaro Advances to Run-Off in Brazil's Election, Critics Fear 'Genuine Fascist' Takeover

Women across Brazil protested the country's election results on Sunday, as homophobic, misogynist former military officer Jair Bolsonaro advanced to a run-off election.

Evidence of Kavanaugh Perjury Mounts After Durbin Releases More "Confidential" Documents

Julia Conley, staff writer

"This is a theme that we see emerge with Judge Kavanaugh time and time again—he says one thing under oath, and then the documents tell a different story."

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Email Marked 'Confidential' by GOP Shows Kavanaugh Pushed for John Yoo, Legal Architect of Bush Torture Program, to Be a Federal Judge

Julia Conley, staff writer

Trump nominee for U.S. Supreme Court believed author of notorious memos...

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Demanding End to 'Unprecedented' Secrecy, Senators Say Kavanaugh May Have Perjured Himself About Role in Post-9/11 Torture Program

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"Release documents from Judge Kavanaugh's time in the White House in the same...

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Haspel

Though "Too Late" Now, Cables From Secret CIA Black Site Read Like Gina Haspel's "Torture Journaling"

A new report finds that individual Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could be held personally liable for the suffering of families and children under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.

Legal Scholars Warn ICE Agents That 'Just Following Orders' Won't Save Them

'Abu Ghraib for Eighth-Graders': Allegations of Immigrant Children Being Tortured at Virginia Detention Facility

A Witness Against Torture protest at NYC City Hall on June 26, 2012. (Photo: Felton Davis/flickr/cc)

On Prison's 6,000th Day, Groups Demand Trump "Choose Justice Over Inhumanity" and #CloseGitmo

Gina Haspel

'Black Mark in Our History': Six Democrats Join GOP to Confirm Torturer Gina Haspel as CIA Chief

CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel

Democrats Shamed for Supporting Gina Haspel, CIA Nominee Who Oversaw 'Chaining Detainees to Ceiling for Days, Naked or in Diapers'

'Beyond Shameful': Democrats Warner, Heitkamp, and Nelson Announce Support for Torturer Gina Haspel

Gina Haspel

With Haspel Confirmation Pending, Torture Opponents Target Fence-Sitters Flake, Heitkamp, and Others

'Moral Free-Fall' Exposed by Media Frenzy Over Trump Aide's John McCain Comment

'Well, This Didn't Take Long': Endorsing Gina Haspel for CIA, Dick Cheney Says Bring Back Torture Program

"One of the things I found was astounding was she said the CIA has historically not been in the business of interrogations. What on Earth is she talking about?" (Photo: Screenshot)

Jeremy Scahill: Obama Paved Way for Haspel to Head CIA by Failing to Hold Torturers Accountable

With Chance to Denounce Torture, Why Have These Democrats Not Said They Are a "No" on Haspel?

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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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Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

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

Amnesty International - USA

17 Years Later, Guantanamo Prison Remains a Threat to Human Rights

Physicians for Human Rights

Release of Top Secret CIA Document Reveals Deeper Medical Complicity in Torture Program

Reprieve

Review of UK Torture Policy Launched in U-turn From Theresa May

Reprieve

David Davis Joins Calls for Public Inquiry Into Torture

Amnesty International - USA

Disappearances and Torture in Southern Yemen Detention Facilities Must Be Investigated as War Crimes

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Jessica Bram Murphy

My Father Was Killed on 9/11 When I Was Five, But What I Experienced at Guantánamo Bay Did Not Feel Like Justice

Jill Richardson

The Death Penalty Is Getting Crueler

Elie Mystal

Supreme Court Draws, Quarters The Eighth Amendment

Dror Ladin

Secret CIA Document Shows Plan to Test Drugs on Prisoners

Karen Greenberg

How Guantanamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings

Eric Margolis

'No More Torture,' Says France. Not So the United States

Peter Dimock

The Symmetry of the Torture and Sexual Misconduct Testimony of Brett Kavanaugh

Kevin Gosztola

Death Of Jon Burge: Commander Set Standard For Police Terror In Chicago

Jamil Dakwar

Trump Administration Threatens International Criminal Court Judges and Prosecutors for Doing Their Jobs

Rebecca Gordon

Holding the Line on Torture

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