A British resident has claimed he was tortured by US guards at Guantanamo Bay, repeated abuse by American and Pakistani interrogators over the past three years including electric shocks and sodomy by US guards.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8638.htm

New documents reveal Canada's former ambassador to Syria accepted a 'confession' from Maher Arar's captors.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8635.htm

The Army has cleared four top officers - including the three-star general who commanded all U.S. forces in Iraq - of all allegations of wrongdoing in connection with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and will not be punished, officials said Friday.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050422/D89KOOI80.html


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"Instead of holding that chain of command accountable for systemic detainee abuse, the U.S. government continues to thwart efforts to bring the full truth about who was ultimately responsible to light." said the ACLU.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8624.htm

Intelligence officials to develop a list including open-hand strikes, closed-fist strikes, using claustrophobic techniques and a number of "coercive" techniques such as striking with phone books, low-voltage electrocution and inducing muscle fatigue.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8584.htm

Torture is a multinational industry – but its headquarters is in the USA.

In this programme Andrew Gilligan examines the CIA’s practice of abducting terrorist suspects and transferring them to states such as Egypt and Syria, where torture is routine. The programme also exposes the British government’s refusal to condemn the use of torture by the government of Uzbekistan, for the sake of the ‘evidence’ it produces: 'selling our souls for dross', in the words of the former British ambassador.

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http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8580.htm

Iraqi female detainees say that they have been illegally detained, raped and sexually humiliated by U.S. occupation forces.

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=7681

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3943.htm

The United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Canada rely on "flimsy" diplomacy in attempts to send foreign terror suspects back to countries that routinely use torture against their prisoners, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday.

http://snipurl.com/e1ir


From Information Clearing House

In 1998 "CONGRESS IMPLEMENT[ED] UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE IN THE WAKE OF BOARD OF IMMIGRATION APPEALS DECISION." Two references given on web are: http://www.visalaw.com/98oct/38oct98.html and
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:HR04328:@@@L&summ2=m & Also, "a bill has been introduced in the House "Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act"; it is H. R. 952 and can be read at:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.952:@@@L&summ2=m

Thanks to the person researching and posting about this for these references. Does anyone have a learned opinion on whether the 1998 bill is still in effect, because if it was our government in this country was violating it big time...

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