BBC: “A Council of Europe investigator says he has evidence to prove the CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania to interrogate “war on terror” suspects.”
Dick Marty’s second report on secret detentions and illegal transfers (532KB PDF)
CIA jails in Europe ‘confirmed’
June 8th, 2007 · Comments Off
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Cuba
May 13th, 2007 · Comments Off
Tango: “Wegens het voor rotte vis uitmaken van Fidel Castro zat de 42-jarige Cubaan Jorge Luis García Pérez zeventien jaar en 38 dagen gevangen.”
Jorge Luis García Pérez: ‘De Cubaanse samenleving is vernietigd’
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Whatever it takes. The politics of the man behind “24.”
February 13th, 2007 · Comments Off
The New Yorker: “Since September 11th, depictions of torture have become much more common on American television. Before the attacks, fewer than four acts of torture appeared on prime-time television each year, according to Human Rights First, a nonprofit organization. Now there are more than a hundred, and, as David Danzig, a project director at Human Rights First, noted, “the torturers have changed. It used to be almost exclusively the villains who tortured. Today, torture is often perpetrated by the heroes.””
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