Category: Torture

Sherwood Ross: Bradley Manning torture commonplace in U.S. prisons

(Sherwood Ross is a Miami-based public relations consultant and columnist. He has reported for the Chicago Daily News and worked as a columnist for wire services. His articles once appeared regularly in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. This article originally appeared on the website of Media with Conscience and is used by permission of the author.) The […]

Thursday January 27th, 2011 in Torture | No Comments »

On CIA rendition and torture charges

Italy convicted 23 CIA operatives on Wednesday in a 2003 Milan extraordinary rendition case. Dan Murphy of the Christian Science Monitor wrote: “After two years of wrangling to head off a case that centered around the Bush administration’s practice of abducting alleged terrorists abroad and sending them to friendly third states for interrogation, Italian prosecutors […]

Thursday November 5th, 2009 in Torture | No Comments »

Disappeared Pakistani woman to go on trial in New York

On Monday, Nov. 2, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University, is scheduled to go on trial in New York for allegedly trying to kill FBI agents in Afghanistan. Siddiqui, according to the official U.S. version of events, was arrested in Afghanistan on July 17, 2008, […]

Thursday October 22nd, 2009 in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Torture | 3 Comments »

White House pressured to end probe

President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are coming under pressure to kill the investigation of torture and other war crimes that involve CIA officials and former White House officials. Recently, seven CIA directors, including three who are subjects of the probe, asked the president to reign in the attorney general, telling Obama that, “public […]

Monday September 21st, 2009 in Torture | No Comments »