Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Jun 28, 2011 (IPS) – It’s been nearly three decades since Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship came to an end, but the sex crimes committed against political prisoners are just now starting to draw more attention, after being pushed into the background in human [...]
RIGHTS: Forced Disappearances on the Rise in Mexico
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) – Malena Reyes, her brother Elías and his wife Luisa Ornelas were kidnapped Feb. 7 in the municipality of Guadalupe in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Their bodies were found two weeks later, in a case that is [...]
Britain to Settle Rendition, Torture Case for Millions
November 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Nov 16, 2010 (IPS) – The British government will reportedly pay millions in compensation to seven British nationals who were unlawfully "rendered" to U.S.-run prisons and tortured with the cooperation of British intelligence. The British press is reporting that ministers and the security [...]
Torture Orders Were Part of U.S. Sectarian War Strategy
November 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – The revelation by Wikileaks of a U.S. military order directing U.S. forces not to investigate cases of torture of detainees by Iraqis has been treated in news reports as yet another case of lack of concern by the [...]
‘Investigate Torture Allegations Accurately’
June 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Thomas Hammarberg* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint STRASBOURG (IDN) – The new government in the United Kingdom has taken an important step to prevent torture: it has authorised a judge-led inquiry into allegations that British officials were complicit in the mistreatment of suspects held by the United States, Pakistan and [...]
Torture – Live and Well in Turkery
May 5, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jake R. Hess DIYARBAKIR, May 4 (IPS) – Six years after the ruling Justice and Development Party government declared ‘zero tolerance’ for torture, the practice prevails in Turkey, human rights monitors in the country’s predominantly Kurdish southeastern region say. As part of its EU membership bid, the Turkish government [...]
RIGHTS: EU Selling Torture Equipment
March 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Mar 17, 2010 (IPS) – Equipment designed for torturing prisoners is still being exported from European Union (EU) countries despite a four-year-old ban on such trade, according to a new report by Amnesty International. The human rights group has found that companies active in several [...]
RIGHTS-US: Another Legal Setback for Arar Torture Case
November 3, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS William Fisher NEW YORK, Nov 3 (IPS) – A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought against a former U.S. attorney general by a Canadian citizen who sought damages for being unlawfully detained by U.S. authorities in New York and then secretly shipped to Syria, where he [...]
