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Tag: Torture
I Confronted Former CIA Director John Brennan. Here’s Why.
On Wednesday November 9th, the World Affairs Council of Houston held a public conversation with John Brennan, former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The conversation was essentially an hour of friendly dialogue between Brennan and Stephen B. Slick, a member of CIA’s clandestine service for 28 years and later as the Director for Read More…
Media Silent As Another Journalist Is Tortured To Death By Saudi Arabia
A Saudi journalist was arrested and tortured to death after authorities claimed he administered a Twitter account which disclosed human rights violations committed by Saudi authorities and the royal family. Saudi journalist and writer Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Jasser has died after being tortured while in prison, the New Khaleej recently reported. The news outlet cited human rights Read More…
Amnesty Calls For Probe Of UAE Forces Torturing Detainees At Secret Prisons In Yemen
Amnesty International on Thursday accused members of the United Arab Emirates armed forces and allied Yemeni fighters of torturing and abusing detainees in a network of secret prisons across southern Yemen. The human rights group said in the report that scores of men had been “forcibly disappeared” and subjected to systematic torture and ill treatment by UAE Read More…
UK Intelligence ‘Turned A Blind Eye’ To US Torture
British intelligence was fully aware of the existence of the “black sites” and gave details of email exchange between officers to show their full knowledge as early as 2003. British intelligence officials questioned detainees that were tortured dozens of times by their US counterparts but refused to raise concerns over the industrial scale of the Read More…
US-Backed Forces Claim to “Liberate” Yemenis, Instead Rape Detainees
As an ally of the United States’ “counter-terrorism” operation in Yemen, the United Arab Emirates established 18 prisons throughout territory under their control. The so-called “liberators” in Yemen are sexually and physically torturing detainees at secret prisons. Survivors recall disturbing stories laden with gruesome interrogation tactics for extracting false confessions. Meanwhile, the Saudi-led coalition in Read More…