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$42 Million Jury Award for Detainees Tortured by U.S. Military at Abu Ghraib Prison by In November 2024, a federal jury in Virginia awarded $42 million to three former prisoners held and tortured at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. The case, filed in 2008, …
The Mind-Breakers: the Case of Ramzi Bin al-Shibh by St Clair, Jeffrey By Jeffrey St. Clair   This article originally appeared in Counterpunch on October 6, 2023. It is reprinted here with permission. Read the original at https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/06/the-mind-breakers-the-case-of-ramzi-bin-al-shibh/   On the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services …
Article • November 28, 2017
Report Finds Medical Professionals Facilitated Torture of Alleged Terrorists by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centres issued a report slamming health care professionals voluntarily working with the military and intelligence communities who “[p]articipated in cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment …
World Medical Association Declaration – WMA Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikes, 2017 WMA DECLARATION OF MALTA ON HUNGER STRIKERS Adopted by the 43rd World Medical Assembly, St. Julians, Malta, November 1991 and editorially revised by the 44th World Medical Assembly, Marbella, Spain, September 1992 and revised by the 57th …
Article • March 28, 2017
Jon Burge, Torturer of Over 100 Black Men, Is Out of Prison After Less Than Four Years by Flint Taylor Chicago’s notorious former police commander is released from prison. A human rights lawyer representing police torture victims responds. by Flint Taylor, In These Times Today, former Chicago police commander Jon Burge, …
Full Senate Report on CIA Torture Remains Classified, Largely Unread by Matthew Clarke “I want to be absolutely clear with our people and the world. The United States does not torture” – George W. Bush On December 9, 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a heavily-redacted, 525-page executive summary of …
World Medical Association Declaration of Tokyo – Guidelines For Physicians Concerning Torture And Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment In Relation To Detention And Imprisonment, 2016 WMA DECLARATION OF TOKYO – GUIDELINES FOR PHYSICIANS CONCERNING TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT IN RELATION TO …
Article • September 22, 2016
A Rare Glimpse of Abu Zubaydah 14 Years After First CIA Torture Session by By Margot Williams, The Intercept Abu Zubaydah, 45, made his first appearance Tuesday on video from Guantanamo in a hearing before a Periodic Review Board, 14 years after the last day of a month-long interrogation at a CIA …
Publication • February 24, 2016
Broken Laws, Broken Lives - Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel, Physicians for Human Rights, 2008 BROKEN LAWS, BROKEN LIVES Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact A Report by Physicians for Human Rights June 2008 BROKEN LAWS, BROKEN LIVES: Medical Evidence of Torture by US …
Publication • February 12, 2016
Torture in US Prisons, American Friends Service Committee, 2011 Torture in United States Prisons Evidence of Human Rights Violations 2nd Edition American Friends Service Committee New York Metropolitan Region Healing Justice Program Edited by: Bonnie Kerness Coordinator, Prison Watch Editorial Assistant: Beth Breslaw Intern, Prison Watch Contents Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………………………3 Isolation …
Brief • October 13, 2015
Filed under: Torture Victims Act, CIA
Salim v. Mitchell, WA, Complaint, CIA Torture, 2015 Case 2:15-cv-00286-JLQ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ECF No. 1 filed 10/13/15 PageID.1 Page 1 of 82 La Rond Baker, WSBA No. 43610 lbaker@aclu-wa.org AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION 901 Fifth Avenue, …
Brief • December 7, 2011
Bell v. BOP, KY, Amended Complaint, Lymphoma Ignored Willful Neg Death, 2011 Case: 7:10-cv-00072-ART-REW Doc #: 83 Filed: 12/07/11 Page: 1 of 7 - Page ID#: 861 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY SOUTHERN DIVISION at PIKEVILLE [Filed Electronically] MARY BELL, Mother and Personal Representative of TIMOTHY U. …
Iraqi Refugee Awarded $88 Million for Torture by Iraqi Refugee Awarded $88 Million for Torture by Hussein Regime An Iraqi refugee who was detained and tortured by Saddam Hussein’s regime was awarded $88 million in 2004. In 1991, 20-year-old Abdullah K. Alkhuzai was arrested by the Iraqi government following a …
Mattan v. Obama,. DC, Plf Mot for Recusal, Guantanamo Bay prisoner habeus, 2010 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MOHAMMED ABDULLAH TAHA MATTAN (ABDAL RAZAK ALI) Petitioners, No: 09- 745 (RCL) vs. BARACK OBAMA, et al, Respondents. PETITIONER ABDAL RAZAK ALI’S MOTION FOR RECUSAL PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. 455(a) …
Article • May 15, 2007
Chileans Allowed to Sue for Wrongful Death in U.S. 26 Years After Family Member was Slain by Chileans Allowed to Sue for Wrongful Death in U.S. 26 Years After Family Member was Slain In 1973, Armando Fernandez-Larios (Fernandez) was part of a Chilean military unit which murdered Winston Cabello a …
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American Torturers-FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantanamo Seton Hall University School of Law Center for Policy and Research American Torturers FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantanamo MARK DENBEAUX Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law Director, Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research …