Tag: Torture

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Iran facing calls to be kicked out of Olympics after execution of boxer

Benjamin Weinthal · February 5, 2021 5:49 pm

Avril Haines, deputy of John Brennan and Susan Rice, named Biden’s future spy chief

Jerry Dunleavy · November 23, 2020 7:51 pm

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Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, 1942-2020

Philip Terzian · September 4, 2020 3:00 am

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with government officials in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, May 23, 2018. Iran's supreme leader is criticizing the U.S. over its hard-line stance toward the country since President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from a landmark nuclear deal with Western powers.

‘Enforced disappearance, torture’: Amnesty International releases report about Iranian treatment of protesters

Zach Halaschak · September 2, 2020 7:28 pm

Chechnya's regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov speaks in front of a portrait of his father Akhmad Kadyrov, the Chechen president who was assassinated in a 2004 bomb blast, during a meeting in Grozny, Russia, Friday, May 10, 2019.

US sanctions Chechnya ruler Ramzan Kadyrov for ‘gross violations of human rights’

Zach Halaschak · July 20, 2020 10:29 pm

The sun flares in the camera lens as it rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court building.

Supreme Court rules immigrants at risk of torture can challenge deportation orders in federal courts

Anthony Leonardi · June 1, 2020 6:56 pm

Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, is sworn in before a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May. 5, 2020. The panel is considering Ratcliffe's nomination for director of national intelligence.

Senators request ‘clear and unequivocal’ answers about torture from DNI nominee John Ratcliffe

Zach Halaschak · May 13, 2020 9:10 pm

Just last week, Congress complained about the process by which Guantanamo Bay detainees were transferred to other countries (Richard Sheinwald/Bloomberg News, File)

Senate ‘torture’ report front and center during 9/11 hearing at Guantanamo

Jerry Dunleavy · January 30, 2020 1:00 pm

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Adam Driver.

CIA interrogator says Amazon film The Report got waterboarding of accused terrorist wrong

Jerry Dunleavy · January 29, 2020 4:41 pm

'A dirty word': After tense exchange, Guantanamo judge says he’ll rule on whether 9/11 plotters were tortured

Jerry Dunleavy · January 25, 2020 5:59 pm

President Obama's quandary about the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is that to satisfy the liberals he has to actually close it. Talking about it isn't enough anymore. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)

In Guantanamo courtroom, interrogator says he denounced abusive interrogations at CIA black sites

Jerry Dunleavy · January 24, 2020 12:05 am

Seven dead and 14 tortured in exorcism ritual by religious sect

Zach Halaschak · January 16, 2020 5:23 pm