Category Torture

One sick puppy

Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer was just convicted of negligent homicide in the death of Iraqi Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush, who was savagely beaten for two days before being suffocated by Welshofer. Here’s some of Welshofer’s testimony. It’s a…

Torture flights

What No 10 knew and tried to cover up Leaked memo reveals strategy to deny knowledge of detention centres The government is secretly trying to stifle attempts by MPs to find out what it knows about CIA "torture flights" and…

Europe ‘complicit over CIA jails’

A Swiss senator carrying out an inquiry into claims the CIA has run illegal secret detention centres in Europe has said he has no doubt they exist. Dick Marty accused the US of violating human rights and attacked European nations…

Leak of the week: More CIA torture prisons

Swiss intelligence whistleblower releases documentary evidence of CIA torture prisons The Swiss government has acknowledged the authenticity of a fax leaked to the newspaper SonntagsBlick which appears to confirm the existence of secret CIA interrogation camps in Romania, Ukraine, Kosovo,…