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CIA jails in Europe ‘confirmed’

HvI — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:02:08 +0000

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)

Cuba

HvI — Sun, 13 May 2007 07:00:05 +0000

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’

Whatever it takes. The politics of the man behind “24.”

HvI — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:52:28 +0000

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.””