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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Reporting from the frontline of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at the environmental situation in Tibet.
… unknown. Sources indicate he too has been tortured, like so many others. London-based … dossier alleging the widespread use of torture against dissident Tibetan prisoners. … more difficult issues raised by the use of torture, and stopped far short of calling for …
'Conservation' is destroying those who've nurtured their surroundings for timeless generations, writes Stephen Corry - the Indigenous Peoples who have actually fashioned those precious places that we now mistake as 'natural'. It's time for a new conservation ethic that recognizes them as senior partners - not as 'squatters'' and 'poachers' to be evicted and criminalized.
… forests. But at least they stop short of the torture to which the Baka 'Pygmy' people in … even suspected of it, they'll be beaten and tortured like the Baka. This has been going on … which tribal people face arrest and beatings, torture and death, while fee-paying big game …
Indonesia's murderous campaign of military repression in its stolen territory of West Papua continues, writes Jason MacLeod. But a courageous 50-year struggle for human rights and freedom is finally bearing fruit, with growing recognition of West Papua's right to nationhood among its Pacific neighbours. Real hopes of a better future are rising above the blood and pain.
… in the campaign. Some of those were tortured. Officers from the Mobile Police … Fredi Wenda, a male relative of Benny's, was tortured and stabbed to death by members of …
The defence secretary, 'comedians' on BBC Radio's News Quiz, and the entire media commentariat have ganged up this weekend up to pour mockery and poisonous lies over Julian Assange and the UN's human rights jurists, writes Jonathan Cook. As they attempt to fight off the UN's 'guilty' verdict against the British state, they are putting dissidents at risk everywhere.
… as they face illegal detention, abuse and torture is being turned into a laughing stock …
As Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy takes a strong lead in Burma's elections, Nafeez Ahmed warns that the military will remain the real power in the land. And as UK, EU, US, Chinese and Gulf state energy corporations compete to exploit Burma's hydrocarbons, don't expect them to denounce the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya, and anyone else in the way of their oil and gas infrastructure.
… levels. The ISCI report catalogues the rape, torture, massacres, arbitrary detention, land …
Botswanan police are refusing to allow Kalahari Bushmen to return to their ancestral homelands, despite their having won a landmark high court case allowing them to do so, writes Clive Dennis
… in their water tanks. Forty-four cases of torture were reported. One man was castrated. …
In 1975 Indonesia invaded the small Pacific country of East Timor, writes John Pilger, and then massacred a third of its population to suppress demands for independence. Now unearthed documents show the genocide was supported by Australia so it could grab the oil and gas reserves of the Timor Sea. Despite East Timor's independence, won in 1999, Australia is still stealing its oil and gas revenues worth $5 billion and counting.
… of Foreign Affairs mock reports of the rape, torture and execution of East Timorese by …
Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
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The human rights campaigner Julian Assange has suffered arbitrary detention by the governments of Sweden and the UK, the HRC's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled today. Here we present the key elements of the Ruling so readers can form their own opinion on the issue free of the universal condemnations of Assange and the Ruling evident in mainstream media.
… essential safeguards for the prevention of torture, stressed that prompt and regular …
Botswana's war on its indigenous population, the Bushmen of the Kalahari, has reached a new pitch, writes LEWIS EVANS. No longer content to arrest and intimidate them as they engage in subsistence hunting on their own land, the state has begun to shoot them from aircraft. These illegal, genocidal acts must stop!
… of 'poaching' and face arrest, beatings and torture while tourists are welcomed into …
The Sahrawi people of Western Sahara have been waiting 40 years for a self-determination referendum, writes Oscar Güell. But thanks to the passivity of the EU, the US and the rest of the 'international community' their wait for justice won't end any time soon. Meanwhile, Morocco settles the country with colonists and exploits its natural resources.
… in detention, confessions extracted under torture or violation of the right to a fair …
With its 800 bases in 80 countries, the US's global military domination is often seen as an altruistic exercise to ensure world peace and harmony, writes Pete Dolack. It is, of course, the opposite: the essential underpinning of the US's predatory economic power, always ready to strike down any challenge to the rights and privileges of its corporate conquerors and financial oligarchy.
… companies, but rather to the teaching of torture techniques to other militaries so that …
Never mind the 'war on terror' rhetoric, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The purpose of Israel's escalating assault on Gaza is to control the Territory's 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas - and so keep Palestine poor and weak, gain massive export revenues, and avert its own domestic energy crisis.
… the Jerusalem-based Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (Pcati) found that the IDF …
Honduras has endured six years of violence and land grabs after the 2009 US-backed military coup made the country a playground for Hillary Clinton's billionaire friends, write Eric Draitser & Ramiro S. Fúnez - and a hell for the country's indigenous and small scale farming communities, whose leaders are routinely murdered with impunity by US-trained forces.
… There have been high levels of violence and torture since the coup against the resistance …
Amid the chaos and stench of war in East Ukraine, Tanya Lokshina investigates a litany of atrocities - including abductions of non-combatants and air strikes that have left entire villages in ruins and killed many civilians including children. It's all part of HRW's campaign to secure justice for the victims of war crimes.
A day in Luhansk: war's crimes, horrors, and uncertainties Tanya Lokshina HRW | 11th July 2014 Activism Ukraine War Human Rights lugansk-crater-cut.jpg Amid the chaos and stench of war in East …
The opposition of Ecuador's Shuar People to large scale mining and hydroelectric development in their ancestral forests has triggered a full-scale military occupation of their lands in the Amazon cloud forest, writes Jake Ling, accompanied by a surge in state-sponsored murder and violence - for which Chinese and Canadian mining companies must share responsibility.
… as well as broken bones and other signs of torture that marked the Shuar leaders body. …