Tags - Torture
Analyst:
Rasa - The United States uses waterboarding and other forms of torture against terrorist suspects to control and terrorize innocent people, not to gain valuable information, says Stephen Lendman, a journalist and political analyst based in Chicago.
News ID: 426865 Publish Date : 2017/01/27
Analyst:
Rasa - The administration of US President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order to reopen the CIA’s undocumented overseas prisons, known as black sites, where people were tortured as part of the so-called war on terror. The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has voiced concerns, calling on the US Congress to intervene in the decision.
News ID: 426856 Publish Date : 2017/01/26
Rasa - The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on US Congress to intervene in decisions reportedly being made in the new administration of President Donald Trump about reopening of secret detention centers known as “black sites,” where people were tortured as part of the US so-called war on terror.
News ID: 426847 Publish Date : 2017/01/26
Amnesty:
Rasa - Amnesty International said torture and other forms of ill-treatment persist in Bahrain despite claims about reforms by the Arab kingdom to address human rights abuses after a 2011 uprising,
News ID: 425243 Publish Date : 2016/11/22
Bahrain HRS:
Rasa - The Bahrain Human Rights Society pointing out that the special investigations unit (an official body) received 237 torture complaints over 16 months only.
News ID: 2861 Publish Date : 2015/07/02
Rasa - Ayatollah Khatami has lashed out at the US government for violating human rights by using brutal torture techniques against its detainees.
News ID: 1806 Publish Date : 2014/12/12
Qom Friday Prayer Leader:
Rasa – In his sermon to worshippers gathered at Qom’s Holy Shrine of Lady Fatimah al-Ma’sumah for Friday prayers, Ayatollah Sayyed Hashem Hoseyni-Bushehri, spoke of the importance of tackling corruption, the Arba’in walk, the plots of the enemies and the recently revealed CIA torture program.
News ID: 1804 Publish Date : 2014/12/12
Tehran Friday Prayers Leader:
Rasa – Ayatollah Sayyed Ahmad Khatami, a senior Iranian cleric has lashed out at the US government for violating human rights by using brutal torture techniques against its detainees.
News ID: 1803 Publish Date : 2014/12/12
Rasa - Amnesty International has slammed Bahraini authorities for torturing children, some as young as 13 years old, who had been arrested for allegedly participating in anti-regime protests across the Persian Gulf kingdom.
News ID: 544 Publish Date : 2013/12/16