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52 children rescued from prostitution rings in US
Nov. 19, 2009 (Oct. 27, 2009) WASHINGTON, Oct 26: US authorities rescued 52 children from prostitution rings and arrested nearly 700 people during a nationwide sting operation over the weekend, the FBI announced on Monday. The three-day push in 36 US cities “led to the recovery of 52 children who were being victimised through prostitution” and the arrest of close to 700 others, “including 60 pimps, on state and local charges,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. “Child prostitution continues to be a significant problem in our country, as evidenced by the number of children rescued through the continued efforts of our crimes-against-children task forces,” said Kevin Perkins, assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division.. » read more
International Justice Group Takes Aim at Bush Officials
Nov. 16, 2009 The International Center for Transitional Justice usually focuses on bringing to light and holding perpetrators accountable for such heinous crimes as genocide, mass murder and systematic torture, often in far-off war-torn countries with dismal human rights records. So it’s significant that today they’ve released a report calling on the United States to follow its legal obligation to prosecute the leaders in the U.S. government responsible for the “torture, cruel and inhuman treatment” of detainees during its own “war on terror.. » read more
Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’
Nov. 4, 2009 e based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program. "I'm talking of people being raped with broken bottles," he said at a lecture late last month that was re-broadcast by the Real News Network. "I'm talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession.. » read more
Documents Detail Conditions Found at Secret C.I.A. Jails
November 01, 2009 "New York Times" -- F.B.I. agents who arrived at a secret C.I.. » read more
James Becket
"People had been mercilessly tortured simply for being in possession of a leaflet criticizing the regime. Brutality and cruelty on one side, frustration and helplessness on the other. They were being tortured and there was nothing to be done. It was like listening to a friend who has cancer. What comfort, what wise reflection can someone who is comfortable give.. » read more
'Hummer Rabbi' who tortured kids expelling demons extradited
Oct. 29, 2009 A self-styled rabbi has arrived in Israel after being extradited from Brazil to stand trial on grotesque child abuse charges. Elior Noam Hen was arrested in Sao Paolo over a year ago - over allegations of poisoning and mutilating children in rituals. VIEW VIDEO http://www.youtube.. » read more
Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within
Oct. 27, 2009 Journalists Pascale Bourgaux and Mercedes Gallego in their trips to Iraq as war correspondents were stunned to hear from military women in Iraq that they should be very careful working in military units due to sexual assault and rape. When they left Iraq they decided to investigate the issue of rape in the U.S. military.. » read more
Music Stars Demand Records On Bush Administration's Use Of Music For Torture
Oct. 22, 2009 A group of prominent musicians are joining a campaign to close Guantanamo Bay and demanding the release of records about what music was used during the potential torture of detainees there and at other facilities. Some of the more famous names in the music industry are formally lending their prestige to an effort being led by retired generals, progressive groups and a former member of Congress to shut GITMO down. The list includes Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, R.E.. » read more
The Very Best Of: Police Brutality -: San Jose Police Officers Using Baton, Taser Gun On Suspect
Oct. 25, 2009 Watch Video Here: http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=t90RAZK9uT8 San Jose police investigate officers after cellphone video shows beating of unarmed student http://www.news1130.. » read more
Judge Confirms Detainee Tortured to Make False Confessions
Oct. 14, 2009 A declassified ruling by a federal court judge reveals that Fouad al-Rabiah, an innocent Kuwaiti prisoner who was ordered released from Guantanamo three weeks ago, was brutally tortured into making false confessions by US interrogators and repeatedly threatened until he confessed to terrorist activities in which he was not involved. (Photo: sfar / flickr) In the summer of 2002, a CIA analyst interviewed al-Rabiah at Guantánamo and concluded that he was an innocent man caught at the wrong time and in the wrong place. However, this report was not mentioned until 2009, and in the meantime, the only story that emerged publicly, from al-Rabiah’s Combatant Status Review Tribunal at Guantánamo in 2004, was that he had met Osama bin Laden and had been present in the Tora Bora mountains. He had, he said, been introduced to bin Laden on a trip to Afghanistan to investigate proposals for a humanitarian aid mission, and he had been at Tora Bora - and compelled to man a supply depot - because he was one of numerous civilians caught up with soldiers of al-Qaeda and the Taliban as he tried to flee the chaos of Afghanistan for Pakistan, and had been compelled to run the depot by a senior figure in al-Qaeda.. » read more
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