Tag Torture

Tony Blair and Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, were under pressure last night to refute convincingly claims that Britain has been complicit in alleged use of CIA planes to take suspected terrorists for torture in secret camps abroad. They can’t…

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United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document.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…

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’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…

 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…