To date, only one person has been jailed in connection to the US torture program, writes Alyssa Rohricht - the man who blew the whistle. His sentence must now be quashed and this true American hero set free and compensated.
… Torture: Thou shalt not bear honest witness … | 27th January 2014 Comment Human Rights Torture waterboard.png To date, only one … has been jailed in connection to the US torture program, writes Alyssa Rohricht - the …
Animal campaigners who have returned from investigating the torture of street dogs in Romania are calling for new legislation that will prosecute those responsible
… launch petition to stop horrific dog torture in Romania The Ecologist | 9th … who have returned from investigating the torture of street dogs in Romania are calling … - a victim of the most harrowing and extreme torture. The gentle old street dog had been …
Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. Now he is taking Unocal, one of the US companies that trades with the murderous regime, to court. One of the most wanted men in Burma, talks to The Ecologist.
… Tortured Soul Jeremy Smith | 8th July 2004 … many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. … but I did not have any information. So they tortured me brutally for three days. Before …
Last week BP's Peter Mather - who claims to have 'green and yellow oil' flowing in his veins - took to the airwaves on Radio 4's The Bottom Line'. Evan Davies asked some tough questions, writes Chris Garrard - but failed to mention the shocking case of Colombian trades unionist Gilberto Torres, kidnapped and tortured for 42 days by paramilitaries employed by BP's joint venture partner.
… BP arts sponsorship chief on kidnap and torture allegations Chris Garrard Art Not Oil … unionist Gilberto Torres, kidnapped and tortured for 42 days by paramilitaries … its alleged involvement in his kidnap and torture in Casanare, Colombia, by a …
Elephants are sublime creatures. But in Thailand they are forced to undergo Phajaan, the breaking of the spirit of the elephant - so that they will submit to the wishes of tourists. BELLA LACK, an ambassador for the Born Free Foundation, is exposing this cruel practice
… Tourism and the torture of our sublime elephants Bella Lack | … that they are resistant to any man-inflicted torture, this is completely untrue. Sick …
As global media focus on Crimea's forthcoming referendum on whether to join Russia, we remember another 'Act of Free Choice' in West Papua in 1969 - which set off 45 years of military occupation, theft, repression and murder.
… army has systematically murdered, raped and tortured people in numbers that could … to money being hoarded or misspent. Murder, torture, arbitrary detention In recent years a … many of its members have been arrested, tortured and killed. In 2012, the KNPB …
With the coming of summer, South Korea's 'Boknal' dog-eating festival is under way, writes Anneka Svenska. Known for the extreme cruelty deliberately inflicted on dogs to improve the taste of their meat, Boknal is a barbaric relic rooted in ignorance and pseudo-medical superstition whose time is well and truly up.
… is because of their water content. Torture and deprivation from the moment of … Forced to endure deprivation and unimaginable torture from the moment they are born until …
The suffering is far from over in Iraq, reports Felicity Arbuthnot. It's new dictator is being supported by massive shipments of horrific weapons, while the country remains poor and devastated country, and a covert US re-invasion is under way ...
… let alone dozens of executions at a time." Torture, sexual abuse and the threat of rape … protesting a near one man regime of torture, sectarianism, kangaroo courts which … who have also had confessions extracted under torture. Thermobaric weapons - do not try …
Women-centred maternity care through midwifery is in danger of extinction, replaced by a medical model that treats birth as an illness. Birth is an act of love, not one of fear and loathing, so what are the consequences? Matilda Lee reports
… Lee reports ‘I never imagined it would be a torture chamber', Ina May Gaskin says. ‘The instruments of torture were both psychological and physical.' …
An illegal cross-border trade in endangered wild Asian elephants to serve Thailand's tourist industry is threatening the future of the species, an undercover investigation by the Ecologist Film Unit (EFU) has revealed
… Thailand The Ecologist | 23rd July 2012 Other tortured elephant.jpg An illegal cross-border … are tied up, confined, starved, beaten and tortured in order to 'break their spirits'. It …
An illegal cross-border trade in endangered wild Asian elephants to serve Thailand's tourist industry is threatening the future of the species, an undercover investigation by the Ecologist Film Unit (EFU) has revealed
… Ecologist Film Unit Undercover Natural World tortured elephant.jpg An illegal cross-border … are tied up, confined, starved, beaten and tortured in order to 'break their spirits'. It …
It's easy to forget that Julian Assange - reviled by mainstream media, hounded by Sweden's judiciary, 'red-listed' by Interpol, publicly attacked by the US defense secretary - remains an innocent man, 'wanted' for nothing more than questioning, writes John Pilger. His disgraceful treatment dishonours only his persecutors.
… of refugees. The rendition and subsequent torture of two Egyptian political refugees in … was condemned by the UN Committee against Torture, Amnesty International and Human … to the UN Special Rapporteur, amounted to torture. Few doubt that should the US get …
Kazakhstan ten years after the Zhanaozen massacre: oil workers’ fight to organise goes on.
… Kazakhstan, and nearby villages. Tragedy The torture and sexual violence used against … of key questions. This includes the use of torture against oil workers and their … command, about the barbaric use of murder and torture in the service of capital, is a part …
West Papua is one of the world’s forgotten conflicts, where human rights violations are endemic. Now Lush has taken up the cause. Ruth Styles has more
… Lush Campaigns Smell Of Freedom Human Rights Torture Health And Beauty holding.jpg West … of the Koteka Tribal Assembly, have faced torture as a result of their peaceful protests …
What’s it like to stop the talking and put your life on the line for what you believe in? Activist and reporter, Eric Moll, has joined the Tar Sands Blockaders who have been protesting over the laying of TransCanada’s XL Keystone pipeline in Texas since April. Here he reveals just how brutal the authorities are with the ‘hippies’ protesting over the corporation’s damage to the environment
… that my convictions might not withstand torture (or “pain-compliance,” as the police … Another blockader yells “how does it feel to torture American citizens on behalf of a … protesters on the road to hear, “this ain’t torture. We could peel the skin off your arms, …
The European Investment Bank’s (EIB) board granted it’s biggest ever investment this week, a £1.3 billion loan for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP). This contentious grant has been attacked by those fighting for democracy and climate justice. KATIE HODGETTS dissects 2018’s most controversial decision…
… fuel use is slamming shut. Corruption and torture "The banks’s biggest ever investment … is marred by allegations of corruption and torture. Planning for failure On top of this, …
Armed and financed by Western corporations, Indonesia is waging a brutal war against a tribal people with little more than bows and arrows to defend itself.
… resisted this ethnic cleansing were murdered, tortured or ‘disappeared’ with a horrific … Rebels were shot in front of their families, tortured to death in prison cells, thrown from … and assassinations, shown huts where torture had taken place and streets where …
'The WWF has ruined the forest ... The forest needs us and we need the forest. But now we go inside as if we were thieves and they hit us with their machetes when we do.'
… their camps and clothes, abused, beaten and tortured them, apparently to stop them from … Baka men having been taken to prison and of torture and rape inside prison. The widow of …
A 7-year old boy has been shot by park guards in Kaziranga national park, India, visited in April by Prince William and Kate, which operates a strict 'shoot first' policy. The incident highlights the government's wider efforts to evict tribal peoples from their forests in the name of conservation.
… tribal people , who face arrest and beatings, torture and even death in the name of … have repeatedly testified to beatings and torture at the hands of eco-guards. Likewise …
The closing down of a community radio station in eastern Paraguay is the latest example of political repression in the country with the most unequal land distribution in Latin America, writes Toby Hill, and in which the media are dominated by a tiny elite of the super-rich. As small farmers begin to reclaim the land that is rightfully theirs, landowners and the state they control are striking back.
… During his 35-year rule, General Stroessner tortured his opponents in bathtubs, threw them … cite witness reports of arbitrary detention, torture and extrajudicial executions. But the … , says Benitez from CODEHUPY. "It's produced torture, maltreatment, and violence." He notes …
Julian Assange's struggle for freedom is one of law and justice against vengeful state power determined at all costs to darken the light of truth that Wikileaks has cast into the murkiest of places, writes John Pilger. Now, after a long series of moral and legal victories, his release may finally be drawing near.
… sentenced to 35 years in prison, having been tortured during his long pre-trial detention. … of refugees. The rendition and subsequent torture of two Egyptian political refugees in … was condemned by the UN Committee against Torture, Amnesty International and Human …
As Michael Gove gives his first speech as Justice Secretary, promising to update our 'creaking and outdated' courts, Paul Mobbs writes that 'reforms' to date have only deepened the injustice that afflicts poor defendants: penalising the innocent, burdening those who plead 'not guilty' with heavy charges regardless of ability to pay, cutting legal aid, and halving the number of duty solicitors.
… strapping the hero into an evil-looking torture chair, advises him, "Don't fight it … : those detained must pay for their torture. Prisoners are even sold loans and …
From child-soldier to Netflix star, the Congolese park ranger has won his award for stopping oil exploration in the Virunga National Park. He talks to SOPHIE MORLIN-YRON
… area is illegal'." Katembo was arrested and tortured for 17 days, after which he was …
WWF’s support for 'fortress conservation' has led to serious human rights abuses for indigenous peoples, writes Lewis Evans, and nowhere more so than in Cameroon, where the Baka are considered trespassers and poachers in their own ancestral forests. A formal complaint against WWF's behaviour is now in process.
… be subjected to beatings, harassment and torture - as the Baka and neighboring tribes … in the Cameroonian government who said: "We torture [suspected poachers] when they don't … that had just unofficially endorsed torture. Since 2012, several further …