| May 6, 2008 | - The Humane Society of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, increased to $1,500 its reward for information about the torture and murder of a ten-year-old blind pony named Kahlua.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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| April 28, 2008 | - A 42-year-old Austrian woman, Elizabeth Fritzl, emerged from the basement cell where her father had, since 1984, allegedly imprisoned her and three of the seven children she then bore him. According to authorities, 73-year-old electrical engineer Josef concealed his daughter and their offspring from his wife Rosemarie by forging letters from Elizabeth saying that she was running away from home, then that she was leaving three of her children at their doorstep to be raised by them.
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New York Times
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| March 20, 2008 | - Francisco Duque III, the Philippine Secretary of Health, encouraged Roman Catholic worshippers who planned on flaying the skin off their backs or crucifying themselves on Easter to get a tetanus shot first and to use clean whips and nails.
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Daily Telegraph
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| February 5, 2008 | - In testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed that agency interrogators tortured three detainees, waterboarding each man sometime between 2002 and 2003. When asked during a House Judiciary Committee hearing whether, based on Hayden's disclosures, the Justice Department would now begin a criminal investigation, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said no, because “that would put in question not only that opinion, but also any other opinion from the Justice Department.” Mukasey also reversed a ban instituted by John Ashcroft that prevented DOJ Pride, a gay advocacy group, from using email, bulletin boards, and meeting rooms at the Justice Department.
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Washington Post
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Talking Points Memo
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Washington Post
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| December 11, 2007 | - John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer who participated in the interrogation of an Al Qaeda
terrorist suspect who was waterboarded, conceded that waterboarding was torture but asserted that its use “probably saved lives.”
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Washington Post
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| October 19, 2007 | - Michael Mukasey, President George W. Bush's nominee for attorney general, received a warm reception on his first day before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he decried torture and promised a nonpartisan Justice Department. On his second day, however, he hedged on whether waterboarding is torture and argued that the president could disregard laws passed by Congress. “I don't know,” said Senator Patrick Leahy, “whether you received some criticism from anybody in the administration last night after your testimony, but I [sense] a difference.”
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| October 19, 2007 | - Michael Mukasey, President George W. Bush's nominee for attorney general, received a warm reception on his first day before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he decried torture and promised a nonpartisan Justice Department. On his second day, however, he hedged on whether waterboarding is torture and argued that the president could disregard laws passed by Congress. “I don't know,” said Senator Patrick Leahy, “whether you received some criticism from anybody in the administration last night after your testimony, but I [sense] a difference.”
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| October 8, 2007 | - A Nepalese eighth-grader who felt pity for policemen facing street demonstrations invented a crowd-controlling robot that can “charge at the mob with baton, use water canon, lob tear gas, and even shoot.”
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Nepal News
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| October 4, 2007 | - It was reported that the U.S. Justice Department, despite calling torture “abhorrent” in 2004, had secretly endorsed brutal interrogation techniques on terror suspects.
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NYT
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| September 22, 2007 | - A University of Florida student was Tasered after his question for Senator John Kerry went on too long. An Ocala, Florida, man accused police of Tasering him after he refused to drop his Koran; police in Tustin, California, Tasered a 15-year-old autistic boy; and a Taser dart fired at a Vancouver, Washington, man ignited the cigarette lighter in his pocket, setting his pants on fire. Sales at Taser International were expected to reach $90 million this year.
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The Boston Globe
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WRAL.com
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OC Register
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Times Online
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| September 17, 2007 | -
Raytheon unveiled Silent Guardian, a device that radiates unbearable pain. “You don't have time to think about it,” said an executive. “You just run.” The ray gun, Raytheon promised, will not be sold to countries with questionable human rights records, although it will be used by the United States in Iraq.
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Daily Mail
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| August 13, 2007 | - Anonymous sources told a reporter that purported Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was told by his American captors, “We're not going to kill you. But we're going to take you to the very brink of your death and back.” Sources also said Mohammed was kept naked in his cell, hung by his arms from the ceiling, and flung against the walls by a leash around his neck. Daniel Pearl's widow and father expressed doubts about the egomaniacal detainee's claim that he beheaded the Wall Street Journal reporter.
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New Yorker
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| August 10, 2007 | - Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, son of Muammar Qaddafi, affirmed that recently released Bulgarian and Palestinian medical workers accused of spreading HIV to Libyan babies were tortured while in custody. “Yes,” he said, “they were tortured by electricity, and they were threatened that their family members would be targeted.”
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Chicago Tribune
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| August 2, 2007 | - An online video game that allows players to torture and kill corrupt officials and their children proved so popular in China that the game's website crashed.
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Daily Telegraph
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| July 21, 2007 | -
Bush issued an order requiring the CIA to stop torturing its prisoners and to comply with the Geneva Conventions as the president interprets them, and also made clear that he would, by invoking executive privilege, refuse to allow the Justice Department to pursue any contempt charges that Congress might bring against his aides. “The next step,” said Representative Henry A. Waxman (D., Calif.), “would be just disbanding the Justice Department.”
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Voice of America
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The Washington Post
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The Boston Globe
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| July 6, 2007 | - A Miami man was charged with elder abuse after his mother, who was found in a trailer covered in red ants with newspapers shoved into her anus, died.
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Local6.com
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| June 7, 2007 | - A security assessment found that just one third of Baghdad's neighborhoods were under U.S. control, police recruits shot a “suspicious woman,” a Catholic priest was kidnapped along with five boys, and 27 corpses, each shot in the head and showing signs of torture, were recovered.
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Washington Post
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BBC News
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Washington Post
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| May 24, 2007 | - The Defense Department released a how-to guide recovered from an “Al Qaeda
torture chamber” near Baghdad. The manual illustrates interrogation techniques such as “eye removal,” “drilling hands,” and “blowtorch to the skin,” and was found along with whips, wire cutters, pliers, handcuffs, hammers, electric drills, screwdrivers, meat cleavers, and a person suspended from the safe-house ceiling.
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FOX News
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The Smoking Gun
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| May 16, 2007 | - A Galveston, Texas, man microwaved his daughter.
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Click2Houston.com
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| April 5, 2007 | -
Gaytanamo: Hardcore, a film set in the “sexiest secret military prison ever,” was being sold at a discount on the Internet.
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Dark Alley.com via nerve.com
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| March 30, 2007 | - President Robert Mugabe admitted responsibility for the recent torture of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who, Mugabe said, “asked for it.”
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iol.co.za
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| March 5, 2007 | -
Vladimir Putin installed Ramzan Kadyrov, a 30-year-old reputed warlord and torturer, as president of Chechnya.
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Moscow Times
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| February 15, 2007 | - A couple in Ohio were sentenced to two years in prison for forcing their adopted, special-needs children to sleep in cages.
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AP via Chicago Sun-Times
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| January 31, 2007 | - A German court issued an arrest warrant for 13 CIA operatives involved in the abduction and torture of a German citizen.
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New York Times
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| October 28, 2006 | - Vice President Dick Cheney denied that “waterboarding,” a banned interrogation method, was the same thing as giving a terrorist detainee a “dunk in water.” He also said his term as “Vice President for Torture” was over.
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VOA News
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| October 24, 2006 | - A United Nations official claimed that the United States has become a role model for prisoner-abusing governments around the world.
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Washington Post
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| October 11, 2006 | - In Israel, four doctors were arrested for carrying out illegal, non-consensual medical experiments on their patients.
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Haaretz
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| September 20, 2006 | - The United States Justice Department claimed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales “had his timeline mixed up” when he denied the United States had deported a Canadian citizen to Syria, where he was tortured.
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New York times
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| September 17, 2006 | - Twenty-three people were killed in bombings in Kirkuk, Iraq, and 180 bodies, some showing signs of torture, were found in Baghdad,.
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BBC
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| September 15, 2006 | - President George W. Bush complained that Part I, Article 3 of the Geneva Convention was too vague. “What does that mean, ‘outrages upon human dignity’?” he asked at a news conference. “That's a statement that is wide open to interpretation.”
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The New York Times
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| September 10, 2006 | - The Abu Ghraib prison was placed under Iraqi control. “I heard shouting,” said a recent visitor, “like someone had a hot iron on their body.”
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Telegraph.co.uk
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| September 6, 2006 | - The U.S. Army promised to stop intimidating prisoners by placing hoods over their heads, or by simulating their drowning, or by threatening them with dogs.
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New York Times
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| September 6, 2006 | -
President Bush emphasized the fine line between “alternative” interrogation methods and torture.
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CNN
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| September 1, 2006 | - The Pentagon announced that civilian casualties in Iraq had increased recently by more than fifty percent, and death squads were said to be torturing and killing as many as 1,800 people per month.
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New York Times
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| August 29, 2006 | - In the Indian state of Bihar, high-caste landowners were raping and gouging out the eyes of low-caste residents.
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India eNews
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Hindustan Times
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| July 30, 2006 | - At least 34 gunshot bodies were found in Baghdad, all showing signs of torture.
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local6.com
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Reuters
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| July 23, 2006 | -
Saddam Hussein was being force-fed through a tube.
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NY Times
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BBC
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| July 11, 2006 | - The Pentagon issued a memo acknowledging that all prisoners in U.S. military custody were entitled to protection under the Geneva Conventions.
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The Financial Times
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| July 11, 2006 | - In Mauritania, where local custom favors obese women and where girls are sometimes fattened up by being force-fed sweetened milk and millet porridge via a funnel, large numbers of women were attempting to lose weight for health reasons.
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The Christian Science Monitor
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| June 29, 2006 | - The bodies of seven men were discovered in the Tigris River south of Baghdad, and the bodies of two men were found in the Euphrates river south of Baghdad. All the bodies showed signs of torture.
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Reuters
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Reuters
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icasualties.org
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Reuters
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| June 29, 2006 | - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President George W. Bush had overstepped his authority in establishing military tribunals for Guantánamo Bay detainees. “I'd like to close Guantánamo,” said Bush, “But . . . we're holding some people that are darn dangerous.”
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Yahoo! News
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Breitbart.com
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| June 20, 2006 | - The Iraqi military recovered the bodies of two kidnapped U.S. soldiers; a spokesman said they had been “tortured in a barbaric fashion.”
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The New York Times
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The New York Times
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| June 3, 2006 | - Police found 22 bodies with bullet wounds and signs of torture in Baghdad.
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Reuters
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| June 2, 2006 | - A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 90 days' hard labor for threatening a prisoner at Abu Ghraib with a dog in 2003. “You can . . . end up losing the whole dang war,” said the prosecuting attorney, “basically for boneheaded decisions and misjudgments.”
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The Washington Post
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| May 19, 2006 | - While acknowledging that Khaled al-Masri "deserves a remedy" for allegedly being tortured by the CIA, a federal judge dismissed al-Masri's case because allowing it to proceed would expose government secrets.
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The Washington Post
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| May 13, 2006 | - The Red Cross criticized the United States for refusing access to prisoners in secret detention. "We know that some people, we don't know how many and we don't know where," said a Red Cross spokeswoman, "are held in places where we don't have access."
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ABC News Online
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| May 12, 2006 | - In Virginia a federal judge was considering whether the case brought by Khaled el-Masri against former CIA director George Tenet could proceed; el-Masri says he was abducted and beaten by the CIA, while the United States claims that allowing the case to move forward would expose state secrets and endanger the war on terrorism.
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The Washington Post
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| April 25, 2006 | - A wheelchair-bound woman in Florida, who refused to put down a knife and a hammer, died after being tasered by policemen.
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Local6.com
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| April 21, 2006 | - The CIA fired Mary McCarthy, a senior analyst, for leaking information about the CIA's network of secret prisons in Eastern Europe to a reporter from the Washington Post.
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CNN.com
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| April 17, 2006 | - In Purcell, Oklahoma, a man named Kevin Ray Underwood was arrested for killing a 10-year-old girl named Jamie Rose Bolin. “I chopped her up,” he told police. “Regarding a potential motive,” said a police chief, “this appears to have been part of a plan to kidnap a person, rape them, torture them, kill them, cut off their head, drain the body of blood, rape the corpse, eat the corpse, then dispose of the organs and bones.” The police also announced that they had removed skewers and a meat tenderizer from Underwood's apartment.
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Winston-Salem Journal
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| March 26, 2006 | - Thirty beheaded corpses were found in Baquba, Iraq, and 10 more bodies were found in Baghdad, where the homicide rate had reached 33 per day. Shiites were abducting Sunnis in bright daylight on crowded streets. "If the Americans leave," said one Sunni man (whose brother had recently been executed after being tortured with power tools), "we are finished. We may be finished already."
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The New York Times
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The New York Times
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| March 21, 2006 | -
U.S. Sergeant Michael J. Smith was found guilty of using a dog to terrorize prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison. He was also found guilty of indecency for directing his dog to lick peanut butter from the genitals of a fellow male soldier and from the breasts of a fellow female soldier.
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The Kansas City Star
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| March 19, 2006 | - It was revealed that in 2004 a U.S. Special Operations unit imprisoned Iraqis in Hussein-era torture chambers, then used them as targets in paintball games. "The reality is," said a Pentagon official, "there were no rules there." Posters around the detention area read NO BLOOD, NO FOUL.
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The New York Times
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| March 8, 2006 | - The U.S. State Department issued a report criticizing human rights abuses in China, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. It also criticized the rights records of Jordan and Egypt, two countries where the United States has sent detainees to be interrogated. The report noted that the United States' "own journey towards liberty and justice for all has been long and difficult," and is "far from complete."
| Source 1:
The New York Times
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The Independent
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| February 18, 2006 | - An Illinois man was suing his ex-wife to keep her from having their 8-year-old son circumcised.
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The Chicago Tribune
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| February 16, 2006 | - New photos of the torture at Abu Ghraib
prison were released.
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ABC News Online
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| February 16, 2006 | - The United Nations issued a report calling on the United States to either try the approximately 500 inmates at the Guantánamo Bay
prison for their crimes or release them.
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BBC News
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| February 16, 2006 | - A man in Texas was sentenced to 30 years in prison for raping his former girlfriend, then branding her.
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Chron.com
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| February 12, 2006 | - Robert Grenier, director of the CIA counter-terrorism center, was fired for opposing "excessive" interrogation techniques like waterboarding. Grenier, said an intelligence official, was "not quite as aggressive as he might have been."
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Times Online
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| February 3, 2006 | -
Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech to the National Press Club and said that "counter-surveillance" of U.S. civilians is a "perfectly understandable thing." "In short," he explained, "it's no big deal." During the speech, Rumsfeld was heckled by activist Heather Hurwitz. "You are torturing people," yelled Hurwitz. "You are a war criminal." "Well," said Rumsfeld, "we'll count her as undecided."
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News.com.au
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Democracy Now
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| January 1, 2006 | -
Hunters in Spain were killing 50,000 hunting greyhounds each year by drowning, poisoning, and hanging them; those greyhounds that “humiliate” their owners by failing to win races or catch hares are often hanged in such a way that their paws barely touch the ground, and as they struggle against the noose, the dogs' nails make a clacking noise. This is known as “the typewriting death.”
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The Guardian
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| December 22, 2005 | - The United States denied Saddam Hussein's claim that he had been tortured while imprisoned. "I have been beaten on every place of my body," said Hussein, "and the signs are all over my body."
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BBC News
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| December 19, 2005 | -
British scientists discovered that little girls like to torture their Barbie dolls by scalping, decapitating, burning, breaking, and microwaving them. “Girls,” explained a researcher, “feel violence and hatred towards their Barbie.”
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Times Online
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| December 16, 2005 | -
President Bush was forced to approve the McCain Amendment, which will ban “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of terrorism detainees.”
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AP
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| December 5, 2005 | - Facing criticism over the United States' network of secret prisons in Europe, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointed out that intelligence gathered from terrorism suspects has helped prevent attacks in not only the United States but Europe as well. Rice also asserted that the United States does not transport detainees from one country to another for the purpose of torture.
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AP
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| November 25, 2005 | - It was revealed that the United States imprisoned terrorism suspects in Kosovo, at a prison described by the Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner as “a smaller version of Guantánamo.”
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Forbes/AFX
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| November 24, 2005 | - The Netherlands threatened to withdraw its support for U.S. military missions if the United States continued to refuse to acknowledge its network of secret Eastern European prisons. “The U.S. should stop hiding,” said Netherlands Foreign Minister Ben Bot. “It will all come out sooner or later.”
| Source:
Al Jazeera
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| November 20, 2005 | - In Basra two British-trained policemen had tortured at least two civilians to death with electric drills.
| Source:
The Statesman
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| November 16, 2005 | - 173 malnourished Sunni Arab prisoners, many of whom had been severely tortured, were found in the basement of an Iraqi Interior Ministry compound. “You know what happens in prison,” explained the Interior Ministry's undersecretary for security. “Their skins,” said one witness, “got stuck to the floor.”
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Democracy Now!
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Common Dreams
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| November 9, 2005 | - The C.I.A. asked the Justice Department to open an investigation to find out who leaked information about a network of secret U.S.-run torture centers (known as “black sites”) to the Washington Post. When asked about the prisons, President George W. Bush said, “We do not torture.” U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley later clarified Bush's statement, suggesting that there were some cases in which torture is appropriate.
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The New York Times
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AP
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News24.com
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| November 7, 2005 | - The U.S. government announced a new weapon, the Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response rifle; unlike previously tested laser weapons that blind their targets, the PHaSR does not produce a “permanently damaging effect.”
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New Scientist
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| November 2, 2005 | - It was reported that the CIA had set up a secret system of prisons, called “black sites,” around the world. Originally intended solely for Al Qaeda leaders, the prisons now detain a number of people whose link to terrorism is less certain. “It's just a horrible burden,” said an intelligence official.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| October 31, 2005 | - Two U.S. soldiers were charged with assaulting two Afghan prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention.
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The New York Times
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| October 12, 2005 | - A Wisconsin man was arrested for putting an electric dog collar on his eight-year-old stepdaughter and zapping her for not eating fast enough.
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WorldNetDaily.com
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| October 6, 2005 | - The U.S. Senate passed a $440 billion defense-spending bill; the bill includes an amendment that places limits on the torture of military prisoners. President George W. Bush promised to veto the bill if it was passed containing the amendment.
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USNews.com
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| September 30, 2005 | - A New York judge ruled that several suppressed photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq must be released.
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BBC News
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| September 23, 2005 | - Members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division admitted that while in Iraq their battalion regularly tortured prisoners. "Some days," said a sergeant, "we would just get bored, so we would have everyone sit in a corner and then make them get in a pyramid. This was before Abu Ghraib, but just like it. We did it for amusement." Another sergeant said that he had seen a soldier beat detainees with an open chemical light. "That made them glow in the dark, which was real funny," he said, "but it burned their eyes, and their skin was irritated real bad."
| Source:
The New York Times
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| July 23, 2005 | - The Pentagon was stalling to avoid the release of more photographs and videos from Abu Ghraib prison. The videos are said to show young boys shrieking as they are anally
raped.
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Editor & Publisher
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| July 19, 2005 | - A British court, acting under the legal principle of “universal jurisdiction,” convicted a man named Faryadi Zardad on torture charges for events that took place while Zardad lived in Afghanistan, where he would often unleash a “human dog”--a crazed man he kept in a hole--on captives he was holding for ransom. In London, where he has lived since 1998, Zardad ran a pizza parlor.
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GlobeAndMail.com
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| July 13, 2005 | - The twelfth major U.S. investigation into Guantánamo Bay found that forcing an inmate to behave like a dog was not inhumane.
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Bloomberg News
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| June 29, 2005 | -
Iran sentenced a man to have his eyes surgically removed.
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Reuters
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| May 20, 2005 | - In Chile, Augusto Pinochet's doctors claimed that Pinochet had suffered a stroke; human-rights lawyers said he was just being wily.
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ABC.net.au
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| May 1, 2005 | - The United States was sending prisoners to Uzbekistan so that they could be tortured more fully. In Uzbekistan the most common torture techniques are beating and asphyxiation with a gas mask; however, victims can also have their genitals shocked, their toenails plucked out, and they can be boiled to death.
| Source:
The Seattle Times
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| April 30, 2005 | -
Lynndie England's lawyer said that England would plead guilty to charges against her in the Abu Ghraib case.
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ABC News Online
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| April 25, 2005 | - It was revealed that Condoleezza Rice ordered a German citizen released from an American-supervised prison in Afghanistan after it was determined that the man had been wrongly detained and tortured.
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SMH.com.au
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| April 8, 2005 | - A Georgia man died after police shot him with nonlethal beanbags.
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CNN.com
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| April 7, 2005 | - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that most of the allegations of abuse by detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay do not meet his definition of torture.
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MYSA.com/AP
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| March 30, 2005 | - A federal judge refused to let the Bush Administration, which opposes torture, send prisoners from Guantánamo Bay to other prisons abroad without granting the prisoners access to the courts.
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Washington Post
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| March 2, 2005 | - Four Iraqis and four Afghans sued Donald Rumsfeld for torture.
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Chicago Tribune
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| March 2, 2005 | - U.S. scientists were working on a device that shoots pain rays up to two kilometers.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| March 1, 2005 | - The U.S. State Department released a report criticizing other countries for using torture techniques often used by the United States.
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Washington Post
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| February 28, 2005 | - A Maryland woman died after being locked in her bedroom for six years.
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The WBAL Channel
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| February 27, 2005 | -
PrinceCharles complained that the British had “tortured” him over his relationship with Parker Bowles.
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News.com.au
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| February 18, 2005 | - It was revealed that the Army, seeking to avoid scandal, destroyed photos of U.S. soldiers holding mock executions of hooded Afghan detainees.
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AP
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| February 8, 2005 | - Secret documents showed that Cambridge University, among other institutions, has neglected and tortured monkeys in its laboratories. The monkeys screamed in fear and anger and tried to escape from their boxes.
| Source:
Guardian
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| February 5, 2005 | - A man and woman were arrested for beating, chaining, starving, and pulling out the fingernails of five children.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 3, 2005 | -
Alberto Gonzales was confirmed as attorney general, and Senator Arlen Specter described him as a man who had made it "up from the bootstraps without even boots." Another senator dismissed accusations of Gonzales's condoning torture as "exaggerated."
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 1, 2005 | - Sgt. Javal Davis, a former Abu Ghraib prison guard, pled guilty to charges of battery and dereliction of duty.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 24, 2005 | - The military confirmed that 23 Guantánamo Bay prisoners attempted mass suicide in August 2003 to protest their detention.
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MSNBC
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| January 20, 2005 | - Three British soldiers were court-martialed for mistreating
Iraqis who were detained for stealing food and powdered milk, and photos emerged showing naked prisoners forced to feign sex acts and soldiers simulating beatings; one captive was wrapped in netting and suspended from a forklift, and one was forced to lie on the street as a soldier stood on him, pretending to surf. The images were discovered by a British photo lab technician after a soldier dropped off the film for processing.
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CNN
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| January 19, 2005 | -
Rice, the presumptive secretary of state, began her Senate confirmation hearings, during which she refused to say whether such acts as "water boarding," in which an interrogation subject is made to believe he will drown, can be defined as torture.
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CNN
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| January 14, 2005 | - Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr. was sentenced to ten years in military prison for his role in torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison.
| Source:
USA Today
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| January 12, 2005 | - During the trial of Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr., it was revealed that he threatened to rape prisoners and made them eat pork, and made one prisoner eat from a toilet.
| Source:
New York Timesimes
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| January 10, 2005 | - More reports surfaced detailing torture in Iraq, this time with Navy SEALs and the CIA as the instigators.
| Source:
Sacramento Bee
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| January 6, 2005 | - and Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales said he did not approve of torture.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| December 30, 2004 | - and awarded the Hero of Russia medal to Ramzan Kadyrov, a Chechen leader widely accused of kidnapping and torture.
| Source:
New York Ties
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| December 20, 2004 | - The ACLU circulated memos, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, that suggest President George W. Bush directly authorized torture against detainees in Iraq.
| Source:
ACLU
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| December 15, 2004 | - Fourteen U.S. Marines were convicted of abusing Iraqi prisoners, including one soldier who used an electronic device to make a detainee "dance."
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 4, 2004 | - More photos documenting the mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq were acquired by American news sources. The pictures, many taken in the aftermath of raids, show Navy Seals abusing hooded and handcuffed men by sitting on them, holding guns to their heads, and stepping on their chests. A woman whose husband ha
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