News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 63
RIGHTS-US: CIA Director Asked to Preserve Secret Prisons
- Inter Press Service
Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee who claims he was held and tortured in one of the 'black site' secret prisons run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is demanding that the CIA preserve cells and interrogation paraphernalia there as evidence of mistreatment.
RIGHTS-US: No Impunity for Torturers, Groups Urge
- Inter Press Service
Human rights advocates were quick to praise President Barack Obama for Thursday's release of the infamous 'torture memos' used by the Bush-era Justice Department to justify cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of war-on-terror prisoners. However, they appear unanimously critical of the president’s decision not to prosecute the Central Intelligence Agency operatives who used these techniques.
RIGHTS-US: Struggle Brews Over 'Torture Memos' Immunity
- Inter Press Service
The Justice Department Thursday released four secret memos used by the George W. Bush administration to justify torture.
RIGHTS-US: Abu Ghraib Victims Can Sue Interrogators
- Inter Press Service
In a ruling that could have widespread implications for government contractors overseas, a federal court has concluded that four former Abu Ghraib detainees, who were tortured and later released without charge, can sue the U.S. military contractor who was involved in conducting prisoner interrogations for the Pentagon in Iraq.
POLITICS: U.N. Staff Seeks Answers in 2007 Algiers Bombing
- Inter Press Service
Why is the U.N. keeping its report on the 2007 terrorist attack in Algeria secret? The world body’s staff union says it wants to know.
POLITICS: Errant Drone Attacks Spur Militants in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. programme of drone aircraft strikes against higher-ranking officials of al Qaeda and allied militant organisations, which has been touted by proponents as having eliminated nine of the 20 top al Qaeda leaders, is actually weakening Pakistan’s defence against the insurgency of the Islamic militants there by killing large numbers of civilians based on faulty intelligence and discrediting the Pakistani military, according to data from the Pakistani government and interviews with senior analysts.
POLITICS-US: Help Wanted, Some Travel to Guantanamo...
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered the Navy’s prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by next January, suspended military commission trials, and assigned Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct case-by-case reviews of the 241 prisoners still detained there to determine which ones should be prosecuted, released or sent to other countries.
RIGHTS-UGANDA: Officials Complicit In Kololo Torture
- Inter Press Service
A branch of the Ugandan government that handles its anti-terrorism work is responsible for extended illegal detentions, torture, and other maltreatment at a facility based in a wealthy suburb of the country’s capitol, according to a lengthy report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) Wednesday in Kampala.
RIGHTS-US: 'We Shouldn’t Depend on Others to Clean Up Our Mess'
- Inter Press Service
Human rights organisations and legal scholars are applauding the efforts of Spanish lawyers in seeking the indictment of six former officials of the administration of President George W. Bush in connection with the torture of detainees at the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay prison.
RIGHTS-US: Medics and Interrogations Don’t Mix
- Inter Press Service
Human rights advocates are expressing alarm about recent disclosures that medical professionals assisted the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in harsh interrogations at secret prisons overseas and at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. It has also been brought to light that judges have ignored the mental health problems of government witnesses in terror-related trials.
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