Torture

From October 22 to 25, 2013, pretrial hearings for the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people made little progress as the …

Retired military officers, UN special rapporteurs, survivors of human rights violations, and scholars urge court to allow Abu Ghraib contractor case to go forward.

Families and former prisoners held for years in solitary confinement expressed optimism October 9 after the first of several California Public Safety Committee hearings about the punishment, promised in …

It's been a decade since the nation was shocked by images of torture and prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, and yet for at least one prisoner, a dual …

Torture suspect and former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to speak at the Toronto Global Forum.

The American exceptionalism sweepstakes really do matter. Here. A lot.

Despite the subsequent abolition of monarchy, there is a general feeling that the succeeding elected governments were as dictatorial as the royal regime.

On Friday, September 6, 2013 dozens witnessed in front of the White House, a live force-feed of 52-year-old Andres Conteris on his 61st day of a water-only hunger strike.

Today, in a case filed on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), attorneys argued that video recordings of CCR client Mohammed al Qahtani at Guantanamo Bay should …

A Guantanamo defense attorney's visit to Camp 7 highlights the US government's attempts to hide ugly realities.