Category Torture

Breaking: The EU knew about rendition flights

EU concealed deal with US to allow ‘rendition’ flights The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU…

New MI6 and CIA torture claims

An Ethiopian student who lived in London claims that he was brutally tortured with the involvement of British and US intelligence agencies. Binyam Mohammed, 27, says he spent nearly three years in the CIA’s network of ‘black sites’. In Morocco…

Poland orders probe into self

Poland’s prime minister said Saturday he has ordered an investigation into whether the CIA ran secret prisons for terror suspects in the country – an allegation the government repeatedly has denied. Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said a "detailed" probe would be conducted…

Good point!

 Condi managed to bamboozle the EU Ministers with her statement that: US interrogators are banned from using torture at home and abroad. But… what if the torturers are not American? What if the CIA are down the hall having a…

Pentagon memo considered using torture

Although Bush administration officials have denied that they transfer terrorism suspects to countries where they are likely to be abused, a classified memorandum described in a court case indicates that the Pentagon has considered sending a captured militant abroad to…