International Business News - Torture http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A dozen retired generals met with President-elect Barack Obama's top legal advisers Wednesday, pressing their case to overturn some of the Bush administration's terrorism-fighting policies. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/obama-legal-team-meets-with-anti-torture-generals.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:30:19 EST The torture of prisoners including al-Qaida suspects has increased under the military junta that rules Mauritania, where security forces routinely abuse detainees with electric shocks, burnings, beatings and sexual violence, an international rights group said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/amnesty-intl-says-torture-on-rise-in-mauritania.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:38:52 EST The trial of four police officers accused of beating a suspect to death has opened in northeastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday, in the latest case to turn a spotlight on complaints of torture and abuse among the force. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/chinese-police-on-trial-for-interrogation-killing.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:12:24 EST The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected a U.N. panel's report alleging that police in China used torture, calling the accusations "untrue and slanderous" and saying some panel members were prejudiced against Beijing. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/china-rejects-un-report-on-torture-as-untrue.htm Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:25:47 EST A U.N. panel urged the Chinese government on Friday to apologize to the victims of its crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square 19 years ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/un-panel-urges-china-apology-to-1989-protesters.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:18:59 EST A member of a gang of drifters was sentenced Monday to 55 years in prison for helping to kill another woman in the group and torturing the woman's 11-year-old son. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/drifter-gets-55-years-in-wis-torture-slay-case.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:20:37 EST China refused Monday to answer questions from a U.N. human rights panel about the alleged torture and disappearance of dissidents, or provide official figures on the mistreatment of detainees in its prisons. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/china-skirts-uns-questions-on-its-torture-record.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:04:20 EST A New York City police officer was charged Friday with being a member of a robbery crew that specialized in impersonating police and torturing rival East Coast drug dealers until they gave up stashes of cocaine and cash. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081031/nyc-police-officer-charged-in-drug-robbery-ring.htm Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:37:32 EDT The dismissal of a confession that a U.S. military judge said was tortured out of a young Afghan prisoner has "eviscerated" the government's case against him at Guantanamo Bay, the former case prosecutor said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081029/former-prosecutor-says-gitmo-ruling-wrecks-us-case.htm Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:06:33 EDT A U.S. military judge barred the Pentagon Tuesday from using a Guantanamo prisoner's confession to Afghan authorities as trial evidence, saying it was obtained through torture. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081028/judge-tosses-detainee-confession-citing-torture.htm Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:01:55 EDT The investigation of decades-old claims that Chicago police tortured suspects with beatings, electric shocks and games of Russian roulette won't stop with last week's federal indictment of a controversial homicide commander. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/159619-police-torture.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081025/prosecutors-widen-chicago-police-torture-probe.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081025/prosecutors-widen-chicago-police-torture-probe.htm Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:14:45 EDT Melvin Jones says he screamed and begged for mercy as Chicago police touched metal clips to his feet and thighs, churned a hand-cranked device and sent shock waves of electricity through his body more than 25 years ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/157959-police-torture.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081023/chicago-torture-victims-face-uphill-legal-battle.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081023/chicago-torture-victims-face-uphill-legal-battle.htm Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:03:57 EDT A federal inquiry has found that the actions of Canadian officials contributed indirectly to the torture of three Arab-Canadian men in Syria. The independent report by a former Supreme Court judge was released Tuesday, 22 months after the probe began. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081021/probe-says-canada-at-fault-in-syria-torture-cases.htm Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:33:10 EDT A former high-ranking police official was arrested Tuesday on charges that he lied when he denied that he and detectives under his command tortured murder suspects decades ago, allegations that led Chicago to pay former inmates millions and helped spark Illinois' death-penalty moratorium. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/157002-police-torture.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081021/ex-chicago-cop-arrested-in-1990s-torture-scandal.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081021/ex-chicago-cop-arrested-in-1990s-torture-scandal.htm Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:11:02 EDT A commission investigating the Canadian government's role in the detention of three Arab-Canadians who say they were tortured in Syria has been so restrictive that the men have been denied due process, Amnesty International said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081020/inquiry-into-arab-canadians-delivers-its-report.htm Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:34:50 EDT In a rare gesture, Turkey's justice minister apologized Tuesday to the family of an inmate who was allegedly beaten to death in Istanbul and said 19 prison workers have been suspended in connection with the killing. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081014/turkey-apologizes-for-inmate-beating-death.htm Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:03:34 EDT A New York-based human rights group accused Jordan's security services Wednesday of carrying out widespread torture in the country's jails. The Human Rights Watch report comes a year after the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, said he found evidence of systematic abuse in at least two Jordanian detention facilities but did not believe torture was widespread in the country. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/hrw-rebukes-jordan-for-alleged-torture.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:32:25 EDT The nation's leading psychologists' association has voted to ban its members from taking part in interrogations at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other military detention sites where it believes international law is being violated. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/psychologists-vote-against-role-in-interrogation.htm Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:04:29 EDT Former POWs and civilians who were tortured or held hostage during the 1991 Gulf War could pursue lawsuits against Iraq under legislation the House has approved. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080916/house-gives-go-ahead-to-sue-iraq-over-torture.htm Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:01:16 EDT A drifter accused of helping her gang torture an 11-year-old boy was sentenced Tuesday to 37 years in prison. Michaela Clerc, 21, and her gang scalded, whipped and starved the child and stuffed him in a closet in a house they rented in Portage. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/woman-in-wisconsin-torture-cases-gets-37-years.htm Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:50:41 EDT