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• Pentagon Continues To Block Release Of Bush-Era Torture Photos
• Palestinian hunger striker refuses Israeli offer for May release
• Khadr’s detention and torture shows West’s disregard for its own principles, lawyer tells B.C. conference
• US GOP presidential hopefuls to revive waterboarding
• ‘You are being targeted’: former terror suspects

Pentagon Continues To Block Release Of Bush-Era Torture Photos Posted: 07 Feb 2016 12:21 PM PST The military released 198 photos, a small part of those sought by the ACLU that purport to show damning detainee abuse. Jessica Schulberg and Cristian Farias  WASHINGTON [...]

Palestinian hunger striker refuses Israeli offer for May release Posted: 07 Feb 2016 12:06 PM PST Hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Muhammad al-Qiq rejected an offer by an Israeli military court to be released on May 1 and demanded an immediate end to [...]

Khadr’s detention and torture shows West’s disregard for its own principles, lawyer tells B.C. conference Posted: 07 Feb 2016 09:38 AM PST By Cam Fortems KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The lawyer who represented Omar Khadr told a law conference in Kamloops Thursday his client endured systematic physical and [...]

US GOP presidential hopefuls to revive waterboarding Posted: 07 Feb 2016 09:25 AM PST US Republican presidential hopefuls say that they will revive the use of waterboarding as a torture tactic if elected president. “I would bring back waterboarding,” [...]

‘You are being targeted’: former terror suspects Posted: 07 Feb 2016 09:09 AM PST Islamic activists tell a conference of young Muslims they will not seek social cohesion at the expense of honour and dignity. John Stapleton A former [...]