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Rupert Murdoch flips | Sunday Times article on Snowden rife with errors
Today, Times Newspapers Ltd (TNL), the company that owns the Sunday Times, issued a copyright infringement notice to the legal owners of First Look/The Intercept, the online news magazine. The ostensible reason for this is that TNL believe that The … Continue reading
Police launch investigation into rendition flights via Scotland: here is the evidence
Today it was announced that Police Scotland are to request that the CIA hand over all information about aircraft involved in extraordinary rendition and which used Scotland as a stopover. In particular, Police Scotland have asked to see the unredacted … Continue reading
Chelsea Manning: international legal challenges to verdicts/sentence explored
The publication at the end of last year of the US Senate report into CIA torture provides an opportunity for the international community to directly intervene in the fate of the person who might well be described as the catalyst … Continue reading
Saudi torture; Guantanamo torture: spot the difference
Earlier this year two stories of torture dominated the press. One was about a man who was sentenced to be lashed effectively to death by Saudis merely for being a liberal. The other concerned the diary of a man who … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, Mohammed Slahi, Raif Badawi, Saudi Arabia, torture
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Rendition/torture: UK Govt still in denial despite irrefutable evidence
The British Government continues to deny involvement in extraordinary rendition or knowledge of rendition/torture. Yet documents prove otherwise. Below we collate these documents and quote the relevant sections. 1. MI6 letter to Libyan intelligence A letter from a senior MI6 … Continue reading
‘Black sites’ and rendition: what the Senate report failed to publish
Much of the content of the recent, heavily-censored US Senate report on CIA torture and rendition was not unfamiliar to many investigative researchers. But it’s worth reminding ourselves of the depth and expanse of this research and below we identify … Continue reading
Chelsea Manning: presidential pardon imperative in wake of CIA torture report
In a country where irony is allegedly uncommon the US Government, or at least its legal system, is responsible for one of the more profound examples in that the person who was probably the catalyst for the inquiry (and subsequent … Continue reading