Torture Claims to be Investigated by UK Officials

Claims of torture against a man currently being held in the Guantanamo Bay detention center are to be investigated by the UK’s attorney general.
Patricia Scotland has requested an inquiry into alleged wrongdoing by MI5 and the CIA of Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian.
It is claimed that Mr. Mohamed was brutally tortured by CIA agents in Morocco [...]

Removing Psychologists from Guantanamo ‘Will Repair the Damage’

A member of the American Psychological Association (APA) has said that new legislation to remove psychologists from Guantanamo Bay will be a good thing for the prevention of torture.
The landmark measure will prohibit psychologists from any involvement in interrogations on sites where the U.S. Constitution or international law is believed to be being broken, including [...]

Judge Releases Guantanamo Detainees into U.S.

Judge Releases Guantanamo Detainees into U.S.

U.S. district judge Ricardo Urbina has ruled that 17 Chinese Muslim detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay should be released into the U.S. this week.

The prisoners were arrested and subjected to torture in Pakistan soon after the events of September 11 2001 and were [...]

Cruelty ‘Will Lose the U.S. its War on Terror’

The fight against terrorism cannot be won if the U.S. adopts a policy of cruelty against its enemies, it has been claimed.
Speaking at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Marine lieutenant colonel Stuart Couch and retired Navy rear admiral John Hutson said that using torture makes the U.S. no better than the terrorists it seeks to [...]

U.S. Officials ‘Should Be Prosecuted under Torture Laws’

A world authority on torture law has said that U.S. officials should be held accountable for war crimes following the invasion of Iraq.
According to <i>OpEdNews.com</i>, Amy Bartholomew, associate professor of law at Carleton University in Ottowa, said that war in Iraq “was never convincing” and that the U.S. has “made varied attempts to undermine the [...]

New torture law ‘would ban waterboarding’

The government in Australia is discussing the adoption of a new torture law that would ban interrogation by waterboarding, it has been reported.
Waterboarding - where detainees are held down and water poured over their faces to simulate drowning - is not used in Australia but the US has used it in the interrogation of terrorism [...]