Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has been formally indicted for leaking classified information to reporters, in the latest development of the Obama administration's war on whistleblowers. Kiriakou, who served as an intelligence officer from 1990 until 2004 and was...
When the pre-trial hearings for Guantanamo detainee Abd al Rahim al Nashiri reconvene next month, they are expected to be closed to the public in order to keep secret the brutal torture he suffered at the hands of the CIA. Nashiri is accused of planning the 2000...
While the Obama administration has stuck to its promise of immunizing Bush administration officials who condoned and conducted torture, other countries have not signed on to that sort of intransigence. A Spanish judge in Madrid, Judge Pablo Rafael Ruz Gutierrez,...
An Afghan investigative commission accused the American military on Saturday of abusing detainees in the Bagram prison facilities and reiterated President Hamid Karzai's demand that the U.S. turn the detainees over to Afghan custody. The U.S. is holding about 3,000...
A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by a former Guantanamo detainee seeking damages for torture and abuse he suffered while in U.S. custody. Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al Janko, a Syrian national, was captured in 2002 and was released in 2009 after finally being...
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Detainees in Afghan prisons are hung from the ceilings by their wrists, severely beaten with cables and wooden sticks, have their toenails torn off, are treated with electric shock, and even have their genitals twisted until they lose consciousness, according to a...
Iraqi detainees were severely tortured, beaten, and raped in an Iraqi National Police detention complex in 2006, according to a confidential State Department cable released by WikiLeaks. Discovery by US officials of the abuse did not lead to criminal investigations of...
An as yet unpublished United Nations report criticizes the US-supported Afghan government for torturing detained prisoners with beatings, sexual assault, and electric shock treatment. The report recommends NATO to suspend prisoner transfers to some detention...
