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Stephen Lendman | 03.14.2013
torture Gitmo Atrocities Continue by Stephen Lendman America's by far the world's leading human rights abuser. It commits horrific crimes globally. No other nation matches its record. It's longstanding. It's unconscionable. It's lawless. It violates fundamental international, constitutional, and US statute laws. It does so with impunity. It's official US policy. Straightaway as president, Obama pledged to close Guantanamo. He lied. He's a serial liar. It's still open. The worst of Bush administration practices continue. Appalling human rights abuses persist. Torture remains policy. It's institutionalized throughout Washington's gulag. Obama bears full responsibility.
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Angola 3 News | 10.19.2012
Two weeks after the release of Amnesty Intl’s new report on the use of prolonged solitary confinement inside California’s ‘Security Housing Units’ (SHUs), entitled "The Edge of Endurance: Conditions in California’s Security Housing Units," prisoners initiated another hunger strike, with 500 participants statewide. In this new interview, Tessa Murphy speaks about her visit to California SHUs and Amnesty's report based on the visit. Our introduction features key excerpts from Amnesty's report detailing how Amnesty thinks the CA authorities have not done enough in response the the 2011 hunger strike.  Amnesty International Denounces Torture in California Prisons
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Stephen Lendman | 06.28.2012
torture Commemorating Anti-Torture Day by Stephen Lendman Annually on June 26, The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture remembers and honors victims, survivors, and family members. On June 26, 1987, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment took effect. The Torture Convention defines it as:
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Angola 3 News | 04.17.2012
The event marked 40 years of solitary confinement for Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3, by exploring the expansion and overuse of solitary confinement, mobilizing support for the Amnesty International Petition to remove Wallace and Woodfox from solitary confinement (being hand delivered to LA Governor Bobby Jindal on Tuesday, April 17) and support for the California Hunger Strikers. The video features solidarity photos from Philadelphia, where the first experiment in solitary confinement in the United States began. Related: May 5 Launch of Campaign to free RUSSELL MAROON SHOATZ from Solitary Confinement | Call to End the Solitary Confinement Torture of Russell Maroon Shoatz This public forum, entitled "The Outer Limits of Solitary Confinement," held at UC Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco on April 6, 2012 was organized by the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3, and co-hosted by the Hastings chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal.
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Angola 3 News | 03.15.2012
Activist/Journalist Andy Worthington is the author of “The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison,” has been documenting the array of human rights abuses at Guantanamo for over six years now. Guantanamo Prison's True Secret: Jason Leopold in Conversation With Andy Worthington
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S | 01.16.2012
torture Sinai Torture Camps - by Stephen Lendman A November 30 Physicians for Human Rights/Israel (PHR-I) report explains "chilling evidence" of atrocities committed against sub-Saharan African refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers. Titled, "Hundreds of Refugees Held Hostage in Sinai Torture Camps Need Rescuing," it discusses their horrific ordeal in captivity, including torture, other physical abuse, male and female rapes, and killings. Human traffickers mainly hold Eritreans for ransom. Relatives are pressured to pay. Tactics include phoning them to hear loved ones cry out in pain. Survivors report starvation, punching, slapping, kicking, whipping, burial in sand, electric shocks, hanging by hands or legs, branding with hot irons, as well as rape or other forms of sexual abuse.
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Prison Radio | 01.11.2012
Last month, following the Philadelphia DA's decision to not hold a new sentencing hearing, Mumia Abu-Jamal was transferred to SCI Mahanoy, in Frackville, PA, where he as since been held in "Administrative Custody." His present conditions are actually worse than they were on death row at SCI Greene. Please join us in our call for Mumia to be immediately transferred into general population. For more information, please visit prisonradio.org and freemumia.com. More Coverage: Sadism in the Cell by Linn Washington, Jr., Counterpunch | The Torture of Mumia Abu-Jamal Continues off Death Row by Hans Bennett, Prison Radio  Call Now! Shut Down Solitary Units. Close Restricted Housing Units. End Torture Blocks.
Imperialist War, Mass Murder, and Torture, But Did September 11th Change “Everything”?
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Rich Gardner | 05.09.2011
Still more on the torture debate from Fox News and a New York Daily News columnist. A columnist for the New York Daily News, Andrea Tantaros, claimed that liberals are selectively displaying outrage. While she says it was morally wrong to shoot Osama bin Laden, that particular case of moral outrage doesn't stir liberals to protest. On the other hand, according to Tantaros, torturing terrorist suspects is morally equivalent to shooting an unarmed bin Laden, but it's only torture that's the subject of moral outrage!
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Stephen Lendman | 03.18.2011
torture Torturing Bradley Manning - by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed him in detail, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/bradley-manning-american-hero.html Another discussed torture as official US policy, institutionalized under Bush II, continued under Obama, practiced despite official denials, accessed below: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/07/torture-as-official-us-policy.html 
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