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World News tagged with Torture

Snipers Fire on Zelaya! Death Squads Arrive in Honduras! Urgent - Take Action Now!
World  (tags: Honduras, Honduras coup, fascism, imperialism, capitalism, coup, coup d'etat, oppression, bourgeoisie, assassination, assassinations, death squads, paramilitaries, terrorism, torture, school of the americas, U.S. imperialism, US imperialism, USA )

Simon
- 46 days ago - axisoflogic.com
According to Pastors for Peace, Radio Globo from Honduras is reporting that snipers are shooting into the Brazilian Embassy where President Zelaya & 100s of supporters have taken refuge. And paramilitary death squads from Colombia have arrived in Honduras
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Stop FireBull in Soria - Spain - VIDEO and ACTION   video
World  (tags: hooligans, torture, spain, soria )

Eureka
- 62 days ago - youtube.com
2nd Week of November a LIVE bull will be set on fire. Can we stop it? Maybe - but not without your help! View the video - use it as a marketing tool - Sign the petition and join in the action on the group.
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Sgn Petition: Call on Nepal's Prime Minister to Provide Justice for Maina Sunuwar
World  (tags: world, amnesty, international, nepal, justice, Maina Sunuwar, torture, crime, death, cruelty, violence, HumanRights, freedoms, government, corruption, children, electric, shocks, drowning )

Tom
- 109 days ago - amnesty.org
In 2004, the Nepal Army took 15 year-old Maina Sunuwar from her home and repeatedly pushed her head under water and applied electric shocks to her wet hands and feet. She died after an hour and a half of torture. They buried her body in a secret grave.
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What Is Going on in the Silence of Evin Prison?
World  (tags: Iran, Human Rights, Torture, arrests )

Ana
- 150 days ago - rsf.org
Nothing and no-one comes out of Iran's prisons. Iranians line up at the gates of the prison, looking for a name, searching for relatives of whom they have had no news.
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Tibetan Exiles Ask China to "Stop Torture in Tibet"
World  (tags: Tibet - Chinese Oppression, Torture )

Ben
- 150 days ago - phayul.com
Dharamsala, June 26: Tibetans exiles observed "International Day Against Torture" to ask China to "stop", what they claim, prevalent and excessive use of torture in the network of prisons and detention centres across the Chinese-occupied Tibet...
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'People Like You Don't Deserve Justice or Human Rights'
World  (tags: complicity, torture, 'rendition', UAE, Morocco, UK )

Eleanor
- 154 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Farid Hilali, a Moroccan-born former resident of the UK, alleges he was tortured with the complicity of the British intelligence services. He tells his story for the first time to the Guardian
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Miliband Shows Leadership, Reveals Nothing About Torture To Parliamentary Committee
World  (tags: torture, secret evidence )

Eleanor
- 159 days ago - andyworthington.co.uk
Is it possible to get the truth about torture out of the British government, or is it easier to get blood out of a stone?
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Urgent Action for Mahmoud Abu Rideh
World  (tags: human rights abuse, torture, control order, injustice )

Eleanor
- 174 days ago - care2.com
Mahmoud Abu Rideh has been held on a control order for more than four years. Before that he was imprisoned for 3 ½ years under an act of parliament now held to be unlawful.
18 comments
Death in Libya, Betrayal in the West
World  (tags: torture, false confessions, rendition, CIA )

Eleanor
- 194 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The focus on al-Libi should be a stark reminder that, when he was rendered to Egypt in early 2002, the CIA's proxy torturers extracted a false confession from him.....
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Rights Group: Hamas Kills, Tortures Foes
World  (tags: torture, terrorism, Hamas, death, crime, middle-east, palestine, israel, politics, violence )

Cal
- 217 days ago - jta.org
Hamas systematically killed and tortured its opponents, Human Rights Watch reported.The watchdog reported this week that the terrorist group had killed 32 opponents and maimed dozens of others during and after its recent war with Israel in the Gaza Strip
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Genocide Watch: The Eight Stages of Genocide
World  (tags: world, genocide, war, crimes, torture, death, extermination, holocaust, conflict, violence, rape, murder, terrorism, starvation, human rights, freedom, africa, asia, middle-east, europe, usa, UN, culture, society )

Tom
- 226 days ago - genocidewatch.org
Genocide develops in eight stages that are predictable but not inexorable. At each stage, preventive measures can stop it. The process is not linear. Logically, later stages must be preceded by earlier stages. All stages operate throughout the process.
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China Plans 'Human Rights Action'
World  (tags: China, 'HUMANRIGHTS Failure, Torture, Dictatorship )

Ben
- 226 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
China has released a human rights action plan, following international criticism of its rights record. The two-year plan promises the communist government will do more to prevent illegal detention and torture, and to protect minorities and women ...
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Bush, Cheney and Others Who Approved Torture Could Still Face Investigation - Thanks to Britain and Spain
World  (tags: torture, bush, cheney )

Eleanor
- 227 days ago - cageprisoners.com
Last month's announcements that Britain and Spain had launched criminal investigations of torture allegations arising out of US interrogation practices had a certain poetic justice. The Bush administration from the outset sought to exploit gaps in.......
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UK Torture Collusion 'Widespread'
World  (tags: kidnapping, rendition to torture, torture, complicity of uk )

Eleanor
- 235 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
British involvement in the mistreatment of terrorism suspects abroad is wider than previously reported, a human rights group has claimed.
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Torture Taints All Our Lives
World  (tags: collusion, torture, injustice, secret evidence, torture evidence )

Eleanor
- 240 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Last Friday it was announced that, under instructions from the attorney general to the director of public prosecutions, the police are to investigate claims by released Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed that MI5 agents had knowledge of.........
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