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Torture

CIA Torture Unredacted: Four-Year Investigation Reveals What Was Hidden in US Senate Torture Report

More than four years after the Senate Intelligence Committee's redacted report, the results of an independent investigation have been released in a 400-page report entitled CIA Torture Unredacted. It is the first time that the entirety of the CIA's detention programme has been systematically revealed. (Photo: Ronnie Robertson/Flickr/cc)

Calling Solitary Confinement 'Government Torture,' Ocasio-Cortez Says 'Release Everyone'

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, seen here at the 2019 SXSW Conference

In tweet commenting on upcoming "protective custody" of Paul Manafort, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez says prison sentences don't provide license to commit "human rights violations"

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Calling Treatment of Julian Assange 'Psychological Torture,' UN Expert Demands End to US Extradition Attempt

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"I condemn, in the strongest terms, the deliberate, concerted, and sustained...

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

Julia Conley, staff writer

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.

Jair Bolsonaro aims to bring about "the worst abuses of the kinds of...

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

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

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

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

Further

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.

Newswire

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

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

Views

Likhita Banerji

A Dangerous Alliance: Governments Collaborate with Surveillance Companies to Shrink the Space for Human Rights Work

Robert Shetterly

George W. Bush's Infuriating Innocence Project

Kiana Calloway

I Spent 16 Months in Solitary Confinement and Now I'm Fighting to End It

Chris Hedges

The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange

Joshua Cho

WSJ Says CIA Chief Wouldn't Do Anything 'Inappropriate'—Despite Record of Torture and Coverup

Rebecca Gordon

Clemency for the Lowly, Free Passes for the Mighty

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