When Will the US Acknowledge its Secret Torture Site in Poland?
By Raymond Bonner One of the longest-held prisoners in the U.S. global war on terror is finally getting a day in court. Sort of. The…
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Torture Enters the Courtroom
By Andrew P. Napolitano For the first time in American history, a federal judge last week authorized the government to admit as evidence in a…
Gitmo Torture Survivor Asks Court to Reject Eleventh-Hour Trump Bid to Deny Medical Evaluation
Lawyers representing Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed al Qahtani are urging a federal judge to deny an effort by the Trump administration in its final days to reverse a…
Special Rapporteur on Torture’s Report to UN General Assembly Indicts Human Self-Interest
By Janet Phelan In his report to the General Assembly of the UN on October 15, Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer delivered an incisive…
Media Watch: Groundbreaking UN Torture Report Shunned by Mainstream
By Janet Phelan The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, has issued a report which gives official acknowledgement—possibly for the first time—to aspects…
Gruesome Details Emerge of Israel’s Torture of Palestinian Prisoners
By Whitney Webb New allegations have surfaced claiming that Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet or Shabak, is engaged in the brutal torture of Palestinian detainees,…
UN Receives Reports That US Citizens Have Been Tortured
By Janet Phelan The reports are in and the conclusion is unavoidable—a number of American citizens are stating they have been tortured by their own…
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture to Address “No Touch Torture” — Or Will He?
By Janet Phelan Dr. Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, recently published a call out for submissions on “Psychological Torture and Ill Treatment.” …