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)
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CIA jails in Europe ‘confirmed’
June 8th, 2007
Tags: cia · council of europe · dick marty · eu · europe · human rights · poland · rendition flights · romania · usa · war on terror
Cuba
May 13th, 2007
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’
Tags: cuba · fidel castro · human rights
Whatever it takes. The politics of the man behind “24.”
February 13th, 2007
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 [...]
Tags: 24 · de horror · human rights · terrorism · torture · tv · usa