Others shared anecdotes about torturing detainees.

Journalists arrested in Bahrain have also accused authorities of torture.

The stakes, then, could not be higher in the torture debate gripping the US.

Landmark rulings expose Poland s role in CIA secret detention and torture http t.co MIbqjrAw4h AmnestyInternational ( amnesty) July 24, 2014

You who sit in the darkened prisons, enduring interrogations and suppression.

But these are not the main grounds upon which the torture debate is being fought out in the US today.

They may be convicted solely on the basis of 'confessions' obtained under torture or other ill treatment.

Torture allegations and police brutality are being documented on social and independent media.

The international community will not accept this form of massive preventive detention, with continuing allegations of abuse and torture.

Human Rights Watch has reported about torture, coercive interrogation methods and poor detention conditions taking place there.

They alerted police to the footage, who proceeded to arrest the two men and charge them with torture.

In the landmark Foca case, the ICTY convicted three Bosnian Serbs of rape, torture, and enslavement of Muslim women in 1992.

As their designated representative, al Hanashi knew which prisoners had claimed to have been tortured or abused, and by whom.

An Argentine naval officer who had resettled in Mexico under an assumed name was wanted by Spain on charges of genocide, torture, and terrorism.

He and co defendants reported experiencing extensive torture in detention, and were forced to sign confession letters.

If Gui Zhentang manage to obtain new capital by being listed in the stock market, they will expand the number of bears living in torture from 400 to 1,200.

Suharto and his associates immediately blamed the PKI as the masterminds of the September 30 Movement, and spread gruesome stories about the torture and mutilation of the executed officers.

(c) The poor conditions in prisons in Turkmenistan and credible reports of ongoing torture and mistreatment of detainees

Thousands of Brazilians were victims of systematic torture and arbitrary arrests, including pregnant women, and in some cases children, while sons and daughters of political prisoners attended the sessions of torture. Cartoon by tonoise, under license CC 2.0

The book detailed the reported homicides, torture, intimidation and land grabbing experienced by inhabitants over a period of 18 months in the diamond mining areas of the Lunda region.

Operation Condor, the Riggs, Frei, and Prats affairs, and many other crimes are documented in the recent report on torture and political imprisonment written by the special commission established by President Ricardo Lagos.

Expressing concern that thousands of Palestinians continue to be held in Israeli prisons or detention centres, and also expressing concern about their ill treatment and harassment and reports of torture,

Friendly foreign governments, especially in Europe, can also be held responsible although they knew about the torture, and took advantage of the information thus obtained, at no point have they expressed the slightest protest, or even signal their disapproval.

Furthermore, Obama s Justice Department has invoked Bush s argument that the State Secrets Act bars evidence about torture from being disclosed, which means that anyone who was tortured can never appear in court.

(g) To implement fully the recommendations contained in the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the question of torture on his visit to Uzbekistan from 24 November to 6 December 2002 E CN.4 2003 68 Add.2, annex.

This is a regime whose horrid stories of torture are true, a regime accustomed to barbarism, a regime that knows how to kill and is creative at it, a regime whose hands are covered in all the blood that has been shed in those cellars, forgotten by history.