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Archives: Torture
![Why Trump loves both Torture and Fake News: Doing Violence to the Truth](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/why-trump-loves-both-torture-and-187x137.jpg)
![Gambia’s ‘Trump’ and the dilemma of the Int’l Criminal Court](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/gambias-trump-and-the-dilemma-of-187x137.jpg)
Gambia’s ‘Trump’ and the dilemma of the Int’l Criminal Court
By Ebrahim Shabbir Deen | (Informed Comment) | - - The stepping down, under duress, of long-term Gambian president Yahya Jammeh clearly illustrates the impact of credible collective security. However, for this…![Will Donald Trump bring back torture? Can Foreign leaders stop him?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/will-donald-trump-bring-back-tor-187x137.jpg)
Will Donald Trump bring back torture? Can Foreign leaders stop him?
By Vincent Charles Keating | (The Conversation) | - - There can be no doubt that the swearing in of Donald Trump on January 20 will usher in a new era for…![Pain and torture: state violence in Egypt](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/pain-and-torture-state-violence-187x137.jpg)
Pain and torture: state violence in Egypt
By Maged Mandour | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - The root of state violence and torture is not poor police training, nor a political decision that can be reversed, it is the…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/06/51EH738t3GL-1-187x137.jpg)
Trumping Terrorism with Torture?
By Rebecca Gordon | (Informed Comment) | - - Why do Republican candidates for the presidency keep promising to commit war crimes? GOP standard-bearer Donald Trump guarantees he’ll torture terrorists and “take…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/05/9780199336432-372x230-1-187x137.jpg)
Trumping Terrorism with Torture?
By Rebecca Gordon | (Informed Comment) | - - Why do Republican candidates for the presidency keep promising to commit war crimes? Donald Trump guarantees he’ll torture terrorists and “take out their…![Syria won’t have Peace until there is Accountability for War Crimes](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/syria-wont-have-peace-until-ther-187x137.jpg)
Syria won’t have Peace until there is Accountability for War Crimes
By Neil Sammonds | (Inter Press Service) | - - GENEVA (IPS) - The negotiations on April 11, 2016 in Geneva and the recent reduction of hostilities in Syria may represent important…![Your Tax Dollars Enable Police Brutality Abroad](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/03/your-tax-dollars-enable-police-b-187x137.jpg)
Your Tax Dollars Enable Police Brutality Abroad: Egypt
By Chris Toensing | ( Otherwords.org) | - - Washington wants to loosen aid restrictions even as security forces crack down on innocent Egyptians. Ever since the Black Lives Matter movement exploded…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/B67xQ-fCIAAB92s.jpg_large-400x300-187x137.jpg)
US Ally Saudi Arabia Sentences Atheist Tweep to 10 Years & 2,000 Lashes
By Amira Al Hussaini | ( Global Voices ) | - - Saudi Arabia has sentenced a Twitter user to 10 years in prison in addition to 2,000 lashes for publishing 600…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/torture-16_0-750x393-187x137.jpg)
As GOP Candidates pledge return of Torture, Pentagon forced to release Bush-era Abuse Photos
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) 'What the photos that the government has suppressed would show is that abuse was so widespread that it could only have resulted from policy or…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/image-20160205-18284-do21b0-187x137.jpg)
End of Research in Egypt? The murder of my friend Giulio Regeni is an attack on academic freedom
By Neil Pyper | (the Conversation) | The body of Giulio Regeni was discovered in a ditch in Cairo on February 2, showing evidence of torture, and a slow and horrific death.…![71 UK doctors call on World Medical Association to Expel Israel over Torture](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/01/71-uk-doctors-call-on-world-medi-187x137.jpg)
71 UK doctors call on World Medical Association to Expel Israel over Torture
Ma'an News Agency | - - 'BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A group of British doctors is pushing for the World Medical Association (WMA) to expel the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), the IMA’s chairman…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/Palestinian_Children_in_Hebron-750x499-187x137.jpg)
Israel: Security Forces Abuse Palestinian Children: Chokeholds, Beatings, Coercive Interrogations
Human Rights Watch | - - (Jerusalem) – Israeli security forces have used unnecessary force to arrest or detain Palestinian children as young as 11. Security forces have choked children, thrown stun…![Amnesty: Hamas Killings, Torture during Gaza Assault were War Crimes](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/05/amnesty-hamas-killings-torture-d-187x137.jpg)
Amnesty: Hamas Killings, Torture during Gaza Assault were War Crimes
By: Charlie Hoyle | (Ma'an News Agency) -- BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The extra-judicial executions of at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza during Israel's military offensive last summer could amount to war crimes,…![Syrian Opposition, Caught between Assad & Extremists, Despair at World’s Neglect](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/05/syrian-opposition-caught-between-187x137.jpg)
Syrian Opposition, Caught between Assad & Extremists, Despair at World’s Neglect
By Haroro J. Ingram with L. T. Anthony | (The Conversation) | - Syrian civilians are trapped in the middle of a holocaust: prizes in a ruthless contest for popular support and…![Should Formula 1 be held in Major Human Rights Violator Bahrain?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/04/should-formula-1-be-held-in-majo-187x137.jpg)
Should Formula 1 be held in Major Human Rights Violator Bahrain?
VICE News | - "Formula 1’s annual Bahrain Grand Prix opened April 17 to global fanfare, but demonstrators in the small Gulf kingdom off the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia have been…![Iraq: Shiite Militia atrocities During Fight Against ISIL & Iraq’s Response](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/03/iraq-shiite-militia-atrocities-d-187x137.jpg)
Iraq: Shiite Militia atrocities During Fight Against ISIL & Iraq’s Response
Human Rights Watch | (New York) - Militias, volunteer fighters, and Iraqi security forces engaged in deliberate destruction of civilian property after these forces, following US and Iraqi air strikes, forced the…![Syria: Signs of Popular Backlash Against al-Qaeda](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/03/syria-signs-of-popular-backlash-187x137.jpg)
Syria: Signs of Popular Backlash Against al-Qaeda
By Robert S. Ford and Tony Ghazal Mouawad | (Informed Comment) As the Syrian civil war drags into its fifth year, the al-Qai'da linked Nusra Front [Support Front] has a reputation as…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/zeid-torture-629x420-187x137.jpg)
Battling Terrorism Shouldn’t Justify Torture, Spying: U.N. Rights Chief
By Thalif Deen | (IPS) UNITED NATIONS, Feb 5 2015 (IPS) - The United Nations, which is the legal guardian of scores of human rights treaties banning torture, unlawful imprisonment, degrading treatment…![Saudi’s Barbaric Flogging for Blogging, explained by a Blogger](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025353im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/01/saudis-barbaric-flogging-for-blo-187x137.jpg)