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Hillier says he saw no credible reports of torture
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 hour ago
Credibility
Rick Hillier answers questions from the Star's James Travers at the Toronto Reference Library on Nov. 19, 2009. Retired General Rick Hillier today denied the existence of credible reports on Afghan detainees being tortured after being handed over to local...
Tags: Rick Hillier, House of Commons, Richard Colvin, commons committee, Canada, Ottawa, Human rights abuses, War in Afghanistan, Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal, War Conflict, Human rights in Afghanistan, Politics, Violence, Torture, Hillier, Year of birth uncertain, Taliban insurgency, Taliban
Human Rights Watch accuses Britain of complicity in torture of 5 UK citizens in Pakistan
Karāchi :: Pakistan | about 2 hours ago
Credibility An international human rights group is urging Britain to investigate its role in the questioning of terrorism suspects in Pakistan, saying the government was aware that Pakistani officials tortured five U.K. detainees but did not intervene. In a report...
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Britain, Pakistan, U.K, Karāchi, Human rights abuses, Morality, Politics, Extraordinary rendition by the United States, Torture, Crimes against humanity, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Violence, Inter-Services Intelligence
UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed's Torture to That of Abu Zubaydah
Karāchi :: Pakistan | about 2 hours ago
Credibility Andy Worthington, t r u t h o u t Report Binyam Mohamed is a British resident, seized in Pakistan in April 2002, who was held in Pakistani custody, supervised by US agents, until July 2002, when he was sent by the CIA to be tortured for 18 months in...
Tags: Binyam Mohamed, British High Court, United States, Morocco, Pakistani, CIA, foreign secretary, obama administration, Obama, united stating, Pakistan, Karāchi, Human rights abuses, Politics, Abu Zubaydah, Torture, War crimes, Interrogations, Torture in the United States, Enhanced interrogation techniques
MP to introduce bill allowing victims of torture to sue foreign states in Canada
Montreal :: Canada | about 3 hours ago
Credibility A Liberal MP wants to change the rules to allow Canadian victims of torture abroad to sue foreign states in local courts. Irwin Cotler says his private member's bill to amend the State Immunity Act is sorely needed to help future victims of human-rights...
Tags: sue foreign, Canadian, Canada, Montreal, Human rights abuses, Politics, Social Issues, Torture, Irwin Cotler, Maher Arar, Violence, Law Crime
Hillier set to testify on detainee controversy
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 4 hours ago
Credibility Amanda Lindhout has reportedly been freed, 15 months after the young Canadian journalist was abducted in Somalia in August 2008. Canada's former chief of defence staff Rick Hillier is expected to testify on Wednesday he never heard any reports that detainees...
Tags: Amanda Lindhout, Denmark, Copenhagen, Politics, Human rights abuses, Barack Obama, Torture, Saddam Hussein, Violence, Law Crime, War Conflict
Obama �will finish job� in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 6 hours ago
Credibility President Barack Obama vowed to “finish the job” in Afghanistan as he finalizes a decision on deploying tens of thousands more US troops to turn around the war against the Taliban. Amid reports he will authorize 34,000 more US troops to take on Taliban...
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Mr Obama, U.S. Military Academy, presidency barack, afghans strategy, White House, Kabul, Politics, War Conflict, War in Afghanistan, Taliban, Political positions of Barack Obama, Punahou School alumni, Stanley A. McChrystal, Presidency of Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Iraq War troop surge, NATO, International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan, John McCain, Afghan National Army, Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, Military of Afghanistan, South Asian Foreign Policy of the Barack Obama administration, Human rights abuses, Joe the Plumber, Taliban insurgency, International Security Assistance Force, Joe Biden presidential campaign, Surtax
President Obama promises to "finish the job 'in Afghanistan
U.S. President Barack Obama said yesterday that He promises to "finish the job" in Afghanistan and to announce "soon" a decision on sending additional troops to that country to fight al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents. Obama said He would explain in...
Tags: soldiers, Washington, Manmohan Singh, Barack Obama, Human rights in Afghanistan, Taliban insurgency, International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan, Human rights abuses, War in Afghanistan, Taliban, Politics
Groups want Burundi to end ban on forum
Bujumbura :: Burundi | about 8 hours ago
Credibility A trio of groups, including Human Rights Watch, said Wednesday Burundi should end a ban on the Forum for the Strengthening of Civil Society. HRW Africa director Georgette Gagnon said. "Along with the threats against two highly respected activists, this...
Tags: Burundi, Bujumbura, Politics, Human rights abuses, Outline of Burundi, Human rights, Human Rights Watch, Culture of Burundi, National Forces of Liberation, Gatumba, Impunity
Urgent call to help families in crisis
Sydney :: Australia | about 9 hours ago
Credibility Forgotten Australians'' if it responds to a rise in vulnerable children entering the child protection system by taking them from their families and placing them in care in the belief they will be safer, an expert has warned...Dr Cleary was speaking at...
Tags: child protection, Australia, Sydney, Social Issues, Foster care, Human rights abuses, Child and family services, Stolen Generations, Child Protective Services, Child welfare, Child abuse, Aboriginal child protection, Family, Domestic violence, Law enforcement in the United States, Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society
Iraq wasn't the biggest threat, war inquiry hears
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 11 hours ago
Credibility The Chilcot inquiry has now heard two days of evidence from the most senior Foreign Office officials who received and analysed intelligence on Iraq for two years before the war and in the year after the invasion. It has emerged that Britain's Foreign...
Tags: Iraq Inquiry, Chilcot Iraq, London Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, Foreign Office, iraq war, Commons Saddam, Saddam-al-Qaida, war inquiry, Iraq, Baghdad, Politics, War Conflict, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, invasion of Iraq, Rationale for the Iraq War, Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations timeline, the United Kingdom, Iraq Survey Group, Weapon of mass destruction, Human rights abuses, Morality, Liberal Democrats, the United States, Philosophy of law, Sedgefield, Nick Clegg, John Chilcot, Chilcot Inquiry
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