Beginning with an investigation in Poland five years ago into his detention and torture, Abu Zubaydah - who has never been charged with a crime and is one of the longest-held prisoners in the U.S. global war on terror - is finally getting a day in court. Sort of. Read more» 
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Abu Zubaydah’s sworn statement provides a chilling, first-person account of how U.S. officials tortured a man they wrongly believed was a top al-Qaida operative. Read more»
Immigration officials arrested 50 foreign nationals suspected of human rights violations — including torture — in several cities across the U.S. in a series of raids this week, authorities said. Read more»
The Senate intelligence committee report provides some accountability for detainee abuse.
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The former vice president offers misleading spin in defending CIA interrogation tactics. Read more»
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The Senate Intelligence Committee released a long-awaited report on Tuesday into the use of torture by the CIA in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks. It contains graphic and previously unknown details of the agency's "enhanced interrogation program," and suggests that the techniques used were in fact far more brutal than it had previously admitted. Another key finding was that the intelligence gleaned from using these methods was of little use for counterterror operations, and in fact may have been counterproductive. Read more»
I believe the American people have a right – indeed, a responsibility – to know what was done in their name. They must know when the values that define our nation are intentionally disregarded. Those policies stained our national honor, did much harm and little practical good. Read more»
Mexico's use of torture in the drug war is up 600 percent in last 10 years, reports Amnesty International. Read more»
If lives were at risk, if national security was at stake, would you condone using torture to obtain information that could prevent such a disaster?
If you answered "yes," you're not alone.
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Following Russian president Vladimir Putin's op-ed in The New York Times, Sen. John McCain contributed a rejoinder to Pravda. Read more»
As "Zero Dark Thirty" rightly implies, the systematic use of enhanced interrogation techniques came at a steep moral cost while producing little to no valuable information in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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A Senate committee is close to putting the final stamp on a massive, 6,000-page report on the CIA’s detention, interrogation and rendition of terror suspects. But it’s unclear how much, if any, of the review you might get to read. Read more»
Civilians face torture as part of a systematic attack by the Syrian government, said Amnesty International. Read more»
Mexican police in violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez tortured suspects to force confessions that they killed two agents and participated in a car-bomb attack, Mexico's human rights commission said. Read more»
Shohn Huckabee, a 24-year old from El Paso, was released from prison after almost two years when the U.S. Justice Department determined that he had been tortured in Mexican custody. Read more»
