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How to survive an Iranian prison
Tehrān :: Iran | about 2 hours ago
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Bigger than his five by 10 foot prison cell in Tehran. (Christopher Dickey/Newsweek) Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist and filmmaker, was on assignment in Tehran in June 2009, covering the Iranian election for Newsweek magazine. During the...
Tags: Tehran, Iran, Tehrān, Zahra Kazemi, Evin Prison, Torture, Maziar Bahari, Bahari, Human rights abuses, Leonard Cohen, Maziar
Ensuring human rights are for all Australians
Melbourne :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility THE Federal Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, has acted in the interests of the government and the people he serves by introducing significant changes to legislation on the death penalty and torture. The changes, enshrined in federal law, are necessary...
Tags: death penalty, Australia, Melbourne, Capital punishment, Society, Torture, Robert McClelland (Australian politician), Human rights, Violence, Morality, Philosophy of law, Social Issues, Politics, Law Crime
Nation's Music Snobs Protest Predictable Use Of Metallica, Pantera To Torture Prisoners
Madison :: WI :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Amid continued reports detailing the CIA's use of loud music to torture detainees at Guantánamo Bay, pop-culture elitists from across the country gathered in the nation's capital Monday to protest the uninspired song selections employed in the brutal...
Tags: CIA, Madison, Criminal law, Morality, Torture, David Fricke, Microhouse, Human rights abuses, Violence, Crimes against humanity, Entertainment Culture
Walkom: Only the losers need to fear war-crime laws
Toronto :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility In a 2004 photo, Canadian troops round up detainees, who were then turned over to Kabul city police. The Canadian government is under fire for its policy regarding the handling of detainees. I n its handling of Afghan prisoners, the Canadian government...
Tags: Canada, Canadian, political crimes, Richard Colvin, Stephen Harper, Toronto, Peter MacKay, War crime, Taliban, Crime against humanity, Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal, Human rights abuses, Gordon O'Connor, Torture, War Conflict, Politics, Law Crime
Children be protected from abuses: Fehmida ...
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 2 days ago
Credibility Staff Report Islamabad�Speaker National Assembly Dr. Fehmida Mirza on Friday said that children are the hope of mankind and continuity of human race and needed to be protected from degrading living conditions, violence, drug trafficking, child labor and...
Tags: Dr. Fehmida Mirza, beings protection, Pakistan, Islamabad, Human rights, Politics, Society, Fahmida Mirza, Torture, Human rights abuses, Crimes against humanity, Culture, Social Issues, Labor
Prisoner Access To Sanitation Is A Human Right
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility States must ensure that everyone, including people in detention, have access to safe sanitation. Without it, detention conditions are inhumane, and contrary to the basic human dignity which underpins all human rights,” they added. The Special Rapporteur...
Tags: New York City, Manfred Nowak, Torture, Sanitation, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Mandatory detention in Australia, Human rights abuses, Violence, Special Rapporteur, Social Issues
The Tortured Reasoning of Oppression
Tehrān :: Iran | 3 days ago
Credibility Since 1998 the 26 June has been set aside by the UN as a day to stand with the tortured, to feel their pain and to work towards eradicating torture. Torture, often excused by its perpetrators as a necessity, is nothing more than a tool for repression...
Tags: Israeli Occupation, human rights, hegemonic regime, Iran, Tehrān, Philosophy of law, Human rights abuses, Oppression, International Day in Support of Torture Victims, Uses of torture in recent times, Torture, Violence, Morality, Politics
Barack Obama’s missing freedom agenda
Nuremberg :: Germany | 3 days ago
Credibility Nice start, and the credit goes both to Obama and to the millions of Americans who stood up and took risks to fight against gathering tyranny...There is a speech that we still need to hear, detailing five tasks that, in order to repair the damage to liberty...
Tags: Handbook for American Revolutionaries, Barack Obama, Germany, Nuremberg, Naomi Wolf, Politics, Human rights abuses, Extraordinary rendition by the United States, Torture, War Conflict
UN warns of torture, killings in Yemen
Sanaa :: Yemen | 3 days ago
Credibility Allegations of torture in Yemen are seldom investigated or prosecuted and there appears to be "a climate of impunity" for the perpetrators, the UN body added. According to the committee, political activists, journalists and rights defenders have been...
Tags: Yemeni, Saudi Arabia, Houthi, Yemen, Sanaa, Torture, LGBT rights in Yemen, Politics, Western Asia, Human rights abuses, War Conflict, Social Issues, Huthis, Sa'dah insurgency, Human rights in Yemen, Terrorism in Yemen, Crimes against humanity, Saudi Arabian Army, Shia Islam, Arab League member states, Zaidiyyah, Zaydi
Court rules to release details of US, UK hand in Guantanamo �torture�
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility More secret information relating to the alleged torture of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee should be disclosed, Britain’s High Court ruled Thursday. Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohammad claims the US and Britain were complicit in his torture in Pakistan and...
Tags: Britain, CIA, High Court, court rules, Binyam Mohamed, United Kingdom, London, Criminal law, Morality, Torture, Intelligence, Human rights abuses, Violence, Crimes against humanity, Politics, Abu Zubaydah, Interrogations, Waterboarding, Torture in the United States, War crimes, Bybee Memo, Law Crime, Guantanamo Bay detention camp
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