Children have been "killed, arrested, and tortured," according to a Human Rights Watch report. The group asked the U.N. to help stop the abuse.

Iran should immediately suspend the death sentence for web programmer and Canadian resident Saeed Malekpour and investigate allegations of his torture, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.

An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged the Kyrgyz Government to prevent abuses, torture and ill-treatment, and to end impunity by ensuring that alleged perpetrators are held responsible.

Police arrested a suspected target killer from Karachi who also pointed out a torture cell on Saturday, DawnNews reported.

“The inquiry is looking at the extent of the UK government involvement in or awareness of improper treatment of detainees including rendition.”

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Torture of detainees in US prisons like Abu Ghraib was a "massive US policy" practiced with permission of the American government, a journalist says.

When again will the US be able to direct others to meet their human rights standards? Although it comes as no surprise, George Bush's straight admission that he personally authorised waterboarding – an act of torture and a crime under US and international law – marks a dismal moment for western democracies and the rule of law. When again will the US be able to direct others to meet their human rights standards? Certainly not before it takes steps to bring its own house in order. Unlike the UK's coalition government, which has announced a judicial inquiry on allegations of British involvement in torture, Barack Obama's administration has apparently ended the practice – but has done nothing to investigate the circumstances in which it was used by the Bush administration. Bush claims that the use of waterboarding on Abu Zubaydah "saved lives", including British ones. There is not a shred of evidence to support that claim, one that falls into the same category as the bogus........

In Decision Points, George Bush describes waterboarding as 'highly effective', saying it provided 'large amounts of information' Even before the fighting began after 9/11, the Bush administration decided it needed new powers to use against the enemy and, some Americans would say, US citizens. The USA Patriot act became law in October 2001, sweeping away limits on the sharing of intelligence between agencies such as the FBI and CIA and giving the government considerably more intrusive powers to spy on Americans. In the book Bush says the use of waterboarding on three suspects helped prevent attacks on Heathrow airport, Canary Wharf and a number of US targets at home and abroad. Bush said it didn't go down well with his wife. "As a former librarian, Laura didn't like the idea of federal agents snooping around libraries," he writes. "I didn't either. But the intelligence community had serious concerns about terrorists using library computers to communicate." The former president....

A faith healer found dead in a Bedfordshire park had been beaten, tortured with a knife and had salt put in his wounds, a jury is told.

An analyst says the US as a signatory to the international laws, including the Geneva Convention, must be held accountable for stirring violence in Afghanistan.

The Iraq war was fought in the name of ­civilised values and ­common decency. The British and Americans presented themselves as the good guys, bringing ­democracy and the rule of law and ­humanity to a ­dysfunctional country ruled by a lunatic ­genocidal tyrant.

Saddam Hussein’s many crimes against humanity, including his brutal ­persecution of the Shia ­population and his murder of tens of thousands of Kurds in northern Iraq, were ­repeatedly emphasised by the U.S. and British governments before the invasion, though perhaps sometimes exaggerated.

If this neat contrast between good and evil has already worn pretty thin in the seven-and-a-half years since the invasion of Iraq, it has now finally been blown apart by a massive leak of nearly 400,000 official ­American military ‘field reports’ by WikiLeaks.

I fear, though, that these leaks confirm what most of us already ­recognise. This war was not merely futile. It was wrong and Britain should never have fought it.

Our writer delivers a searing dispatch after the WikiLeaks revelations that expose in detail the brutality of the war in Iraq - and the astonishing, disgraceful deceit of the US

Fresh evidence that US soldiers handed over detainees to a notorious Iraqi torture squad has emerged in army logs published by WikiLeaks.

The 400,000 field reports published by the whistleblowing website at the weekend contain an official account of deliberate threats by a military interrogator to turn his captive over to the Iraqi "Wolf Brigade".

The interrogator told the prisoner in explicit terms that: "He would be subject to all the pain and agony that the Wolf battalion is known to exact upon its detainees."

KARACHI: A city court adjourned on Tuesday the hearing of Asif Ali Zardari torture case till August 20 as the judge was on leave. President Zardari was allegedly subjected to torture while he was under detention at Thana Civil Line. A case in this regard was filed against former Sindh Police Inspector-General Rana Maqbool, Farooq Ameen Qureshi, Saifur Rehman and Najaf Mirza. In the previous hearing, Session Judge Abdul Razzak had ordered the accused to appear before the court on August 17.

The United States is using its citizens as guinea pigs to test biological weapons and simulate germ warfare attacks in different locations across the country, reports say.

"Global Research," -- Interview with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary US Treasury, Associate Editor Wall Street Journal, Professor of Political Economy Center for Strategic and International Studies Georgetown University Washington DC.

Former US president says Khalid Sheik Mohammed was waterboarded by US and he would do it again 'to save lives' George Bush admitted yesterday that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was waterboarded by the US, and said he would do it again "to save lives". "Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," the former president told a business audience in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "I'd do it again to save lives." Waterboarding is a simulated drowning technique that the Obama administration has said is torture. Mohammed was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and is the most senior al-Qaida operative in US custody. In his speech, Bush also defended the decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003. He said ousting Saddam Hussein "was the right thing to do and the world is a better place without him". But he said he was not tempted to criticise Barack Obama. "You are not going to see me in the public square criticising the president." In February he said...

To rubbish the former judge's report on Gaza, Israel has dredged up his record in South Africa – while forgetting its own On 5 January 2009 the Israeli army rounded up around 65 Palestinians (including 11 women and 11 children under the age of 14) in Gaza, several of whom were waving white flags. After handcuffing the men and stripping them to their underwear, the soldiers marched their captives 2km north to al-Atatra and ordered them to climb into three pits, each three metres high and surrounded by barbed wire. The prisoners were forced to sit in stress positions, leaning forward with their heads down, and prohibited from talking to one another. On their first day they were denied food and water. On the second and third, each was given a sip of water and a single olive. On the fourth day the women and children were released and the men were transferred to military barracks. It was just one of the stories to emerge from the UN fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict conducted..

As the Afghan occupation continues to prove troublesome for the Obama administration, a report says US-led troops torture and execute prisoners in the country.

At least eight Afghan insurgents handed over by British troops have alleged they were tortured, the High Court hears.

Britain delays the publication of a new set of guidelines for the interrogation of terror suspects held overseas amid disputes over how to deal with the potentially vital information from inmates who may be at risk of torture.

A senior British judge's criticism of the domestic security service MI5 over the case of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee has been published.

Read the text removed from original judgment on role of MI5 in US torture of British resident, which can now be published

Read the text removed from original judgment on role of MI5 in US torture of British resident, which can now be published

Passages removed from judgment on involvement of MI5 in torture of Binyam Mohamed must be restored, court of appeal rules Devastating passages criticising MI5 that were removed from the ruling on the involvement of the security service in the torture of Binyam Mohamed must be restored to the judgment, the court of appeal ruled today. The decision is another blow to the government after it lost its attempt earlier this month to cover up MI5's complicity in "cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment" meted out to the British resident Mohamed by the US. The passages that will now be restored appeared in the original draft judgment but were removed after Jonathan Sumption QC, the government's counsel, claimed the words suggested that MI5's approach undermined assurances given by ministers and that MI5 had "an interest in suppressing information". Sumption added that the observations of Lord Neuberger, the master of the rolls, in the judgment constituted "exceptionally damaging criticism of the good faith of the security service as a whole" that was not based on evidence heard in court. Neuberger agreed to Sumption's request without other parties in the case having any opportunity to oppose it. Lawyers for Mohamed, media groups led by the Guardian, and civil rights groups Liberty, Justice and Index on Censorship, strongly objected. They argued that it was a response to a wholly unwarranted and dangerous interference in the courts. The judgment in the Mohamed case saw the foreign secretary, David Miliband, defeated in his long battle to prevent publication of a seven-paragraph summary of 42 CIA documents – which are still suppressed – describing the treatment Mohamed received with the knowledge of MI5 officers. MI5 Binyam Mohamed Torture Haroon Siddique guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Lord chief justice may restore passage government wanted kept secret. Three senior judges are today expected to restore devastating passages to a ruling criticising MI5 over the torture and ill-treatment of terror suspects abroad.

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Evidence over "paragraph 168" shows that security services did know of deliberate US strategy of sleep deprivation, rendition threats and shackling. One of the gravest revelations so far made about the missing "paragraph 168" of this week's appeal court judgment in the Binyam Mohamed case is that parliament's intelligence and security committee (ISC) was misled by MI5. Government lawyer Jonathan Sumption QC, in a letter demanding the deletion of paragraph 168, confirmed this, pointing out that the judgment stated: "Officials of the service deliberately misled the ISC." He was referring to evidence given to a secret session of the ISC on 23 November 2006 by the then head of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller. She was testifying about events in May 2002 that took place under her predecessor, Stephen Lander. According to the ISC's later heavily redacted report, Manningham-Buller and her team denied all knowledge of Mohamed's ill-treatment. The committee – chaired by the former Northern Ireland secretary Paul Murphy – was told: "A member of the security service did interview [Mohamed] once for a period of approximately three hours while he was detained in Karachi in 2002." The interrogator, later known as Witness B, was "an experienced officer" who conducted the interview "in line with the services' guidance to staff on contact with detainees". The ISC recorded: "The security service denies that the officer told [Mohamed] he would be tortured as he alleges … He did not observe any abuse and … no instances of abuse were mentioned by [Mohamed]." Murphy's committee duly reassured the public that although MI5 conceded they had not demanded specific assurances from the US that Mohamed was being properly treated: "This is understandable given the lack of knowledge at the time of any possible consequences of US custody of detainees." That part of the published ISC report now appears to have been untrue. The judges found that MI5 had 42 documents, detailing how both Witness B and "persons senior to Witness B" had been briefed in detail at the time about how the US was deliberately ill-treating Mohamed as part of a "new strategy", systematically depriving him of sleep, terrifying him with threats of rendition and shackling him in interrogations.

Here we publish a lawyer's letter detailing how the Master of the Rolls condemned MI5 for withholding intelligence from the foreign secretary and the courts over complicity in torture

Government persuaded Lord Neuberger to delete damning references to MI5 'culture' of suppressing evidence

Legal principle established in 1637 banned secret talks between lawyers and courts. It was broken by the government When the master of the rolls, Lord Neuberger, decided to retract paragraph 168 from his draft judgment in the case of Binyam Mohamed, he relied on almost 400 years of jurisprudence to assume that the parties in the case had agreed to its removal. The case of Ship Money, brought by Oliver Cromwell's cousin John Hampden in 1637, established the principle that there should be no secret communication between lawyers and the courts in legal proceedings. Representations from one side – in this case, the foreign secretary's barrister, Jonathan Sumption QC – should be copied to all other parties in the case, so that they have the opportunity to respond. On that basis, when Neuberger received a letter from Sumption requesting removal of the paragraph from the court of appeal draft judgment, lawyers say he must have thought he was acting with the agreement of all parties. Neuberger removed the paragraph from the final judgment, watering down the court's condemnation of the security services, described by Sumption as containing "exceptionally damaging criticism". "The master of the rolls' observations … will be read as statements by the court that the security service does not in fact operate a culture that respects human rights or abjures participation in coercive interrogation techniques," says Sumption's letter, now published in full on the Guardian's website. But other parties in the case were not consulted and are furious. "In all the years – I was first a government lawyer and then a liberty lawyer – I have never known the draft judgment process abused in this way," said Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, the human rights organisation which was a party to the case. "The purpose of using drafts is for typographical and factual corrections – minor matters such as names and dates. "It is not to allow one party to re-run substantive arguments and tempt a court to tone down or change its judgments." She added: "I can't believe that the Foreign Office thought they could get away with this. It shows the kind of contempt for the law that this case has always been about." "This is anti-constitutional behaviour of the most disquieting kind," said Mark Stephens,

Live coverage as the foreign secretary makes a statement to MPs following court ruling ordering the government to disclose what MI5 knew of refugee's treatment in Guantánamo Bay 11.44am: This morning the court of appeal ordered the government to publish evidence of MI5 complicity in the torture of the British resident Binyam Mohamed. David Miliband, the foreign secretary, is making a statement about the case in the Commons at 12.30pm. We'll be covering it live. Binyam Mohamed Guantánamo Bay Torture Human rights David Miliband Terrorism policy Andrew Sparrow guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

A new report says Bush administration lawyers who drafted legal theories leading to torture of terror suspects will not be referred to authorities for sanction.

The Chief of Lithuania's secret service is forced to resign after a controversial investigation found that the Baltic state had agreed to set up secret jails for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Allegations of Israeli doctors colluding in the torture of Palestinians must be investigated

Evidence has emerged that the British army used waterboarding to interrogate Northern Ireland prisoners during troubled times back in the 1970s.

Palestinian security agents have been torturing supporters of the Hamas movement in their custody in the West Bank with cooperation of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a report says.

The United Nations has called on Yemen to investigate allegations of unlawful killings and torture committed by its security forces in the north of the country.

Britain is set to hold a public inquiry into claims that its soldiers have tortured and murdered Iraqi prisoners.

Finally I have indisputable documentary evidence that the British government had a positive policy of using intelligence from torture in the War on Terror, and that the policy was personally directed by Jack Straw.

Here are the minutes of the meeting at which I was told this:

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All references to the CIA and MI6 have been literally cut out, but the meaning is till perfectly unmistakeable particularly given the heading of the minute.

And here is the absolute smoking gun of Jack Straw's involvement::

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Straw has been lying about this for five years. He dismissed my evidence on this to the Parliamenary Joint Committee on Human Rights as "Entirely untrue".

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Straw ruined my career over my opposition to torture intelligence, after I had been appointed Ambassador by his predecessor, Robin Cook, who was rather more well disposed towards human rights. It is wonderful that it is Robin Cook's Freedom of Information Act which I have used to finally prove beyond any doubt that slippery Straw was up to his neck in approving intelligence from torture.

Lawyer alleges collusion between Britain and US over ill-treatment of prisoners, including sexual humiliation The Ministry of Defence confirmed last night that it is investigating 33 cases of alleged abuse, including rape and torture of Iraqi civilians by British soldiers. One claimant alleges that he was raped by two British soldiers, while others claim they were stripped naked, abused and photographed. Female soldiers are also alleged to have taken part in abuse.

An investigation has been launched into allegations that British troops tortured Iraqi civilians, Britain's Ministry of Defense says.

Official wades into high court row with Miliband • Move to disclose CIA material 'erodes trust' A top Foreign Office official has accused high court judges of damaging Britain's national security by insisting that CIA evidence of British involvement in torture must be revealed. The extraordinary intervention in a fierce dispute between David Miliband, the foreign secretary, and the high court has come from Simon Manley, the FCO's director of defence and strategic threats.

An American plane named in an inquiry by the European parliament into alleged CIA torture flights landed at Birmingham airport last month and was met by British special forces helicopters.

Plane spotters said the Gulfstream jet touched down from an undisclosed location on 2 October and was met by two army air corps Dauphin 2 helicopters used by the SAS at Hereford.

The 22-seat plane is registered to L-3 Integrated Systems, a Montana-based subsidiary of a US defence corporation. It made numerous flights between Ireland and Egypt in 2003 and was involved in an accident at Bucharest airport in Romania in 2004 after a flight from Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.

The European parliament reported that seven passengers disappeared after the accident and deplored the CIA's use of Romania as a stopover for extraordinary renditions of terror suspects including the British national Binyam Mohammed.

In the early hours of Wednesday October 14, the body of Yousef Hamdan Abu Zuhri, brother of a Hamas spokesman, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri was handed down to the Palestinian side in Gaza. Yousef died in Burj al Arab prison in Alexandria, Egypt .

The pictures obtained by Palestine Now show signs of brutal and horrible torture all over his body.

According to Palestinian medical sources at Abu Yousef Al Najjar Hospital in Rafah, the body of martyr Abu Zuhri was handed over without Internal viscera and most of his tongue was amputated.

These are some photos obtained by Palestine Now for the body of the martyr, the rest of the pictures were too horrific to be published.

We also knew that Yousef died 4 days before the announcement of his death. He was subjected to very high electric shocks for long periods and as a result of torture he lost his sight more than a month before his death.

High court orders publication of US report, saying British foreign secretary's actions were harmful to the rule of law David Miliband, the foreign secretary, acted in a way that was harmful to the rule of law by suppressing evidence about what the government knew of the illegal treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who was held in a secret prison in Pakistan, the high court has ruled.

In a devastating judgment, two senior judges roundly dismissed the foreign secretary's claims that disclosing the evidence would harm national security and threaten the UK's vital intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US.
In what they described as an "unprecedented" and "exceptional" case, to which the Guardian is a party, they ordered the release of a seven-paragraph summary of what the CIA told British officials – and maybe ministers – about Ethiopian-born Mohamed before he was secretly interrogated by an MI5 officer in 2002. "The suppression of reports of wrongdoing by officials in circumstances which cannot in any way affect national security is inimical to the rule of law," Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones ruled. "Championing the rule of law, not subordinating it, is the cornerstone of democracy."

Palestinian authorities begin military trial over death of Haitham Amr, fourth Hamas suspect to die in custody this year Palestinian authorities have begun a rare military trial of security officers accused of torturing a Hamas suspect to death at a time of an intensifying crackdown in the West Bank against the Islamist movement.

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