Torture

Earlier this week, on Wednesday, May 8, lawyers for Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz filed a federal lawsuit regarding his placement in solitary confinement for over 22 consecutive years. The written complaint, directed …

Death Row inmate William Van Poyck fights for his life by blogging his experience as he waits for lethal injection.

More than 100 detainees at Guantanamo Bay are starving themselves to death, and 23 of them are being force-fed and allegedly punished for their hunger strike.

After several horrific factory collapses in Bangladesh, some U.S. apparel companies are starting to rethink their use of slave labor.

Stephen F. Rodhe: Today is Law Day, and Obama has issued a lofty Proclamation, full of sound and formality, signifying nothing.

The Center for Constitutional Rights is still seeking accountability from those alleged to have tortured at Abu Ghraib.

In this ultimately hopeful conversation, Noam Chomsky talks about civil liberties from the Magna Carta to NDAA.

Desperate prisoners refusing food at Guantanamo Bay since the beginning of February have vowed to ‘strike to death,’ according to lawyers' notes obtained by Truthout.

The 11-member Task Force on Detainee Treatment was convened by The Constitution Project after President Obama chose not to support a national commission to investigate the counterterrorism programs.

According to a new report by the UN, restricting women's access to abortion is considered torture, and states like North Dakota are guilty.