Torture

The European Court of Human Rights concludes that so-called enhanced interrogation techniques - specifically approved by John Yoo and Jay Bybee for use by the CIA on Abu Zubaydah …

Whatever lingering moral authority remaining in the administration of President Barack Obama fell to dust last Friday in a news dump that no one, apparently, was expected to pay …

Abu Wa'el Dhiab, a father of four from Syria, is currently asking the DC District Court to order a halt to abusive force-feeding methods and the practice of unnecessary …

Obama's admission that the United States tortured people provides another reason to investigate John Yoo, the author of the main memo providing the supposed legal basis for the CIA's …

The men held outside the law by the US at Guantu00e1namo Bay have been called “non-persons” by the US attorney general.

The European Court of Human Rights has today ruled that the Polish government was not only aware of but actively assisted the CIA's European black site program.

A basic skill of an effective lawyer is the ability to form a legal opinion regarding specific factual circumstances.

A Pentagon spokesperson acknowledged that an employee declined to perform this specific feeding task, so he was reassigned to other duties.

There are too many stories are out there about the subhuman treatment of pregnant prisoners who give birth while chained, with prison officials by their side.

Top officials in the Obama administration didn't think it worth the bother to dismantle the elaborate torture system created in the Bush years.