Amnesty International today accused the Mauritanian government of routine and systematic torture, saying that the security apparatus has adopted torture as the ...
The country's security forces have adopted torture as the preferred method of investigation and repression, according to a new Amnesty International report.
Dr Ayman Batarfi, a 38-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, has been held in Guantánamo without charge or trial for nearly seven years. He is one of dozens of Yemeni detainees ...
Mohamed al-Qahtani has been in Guantánamo since February 2002. For about six months from August 2002 he was held in total isolation and subjected to sleep deprivation ...
Seventeen Uighur men have been in Guantánamo without charge or trial since 2002. In October 2008 a US District Court ordered their release into the USA, but the ...
Jahangir Alam Akash, journalist and head of two local human rights organizations, was detained for more than a month in October 2007 and tortured by the Rapid Action ...
Rita Mahato is a 30-year-old health counsellor with the Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) in Nepal. In June 2007 she was threatened with rape and death when ...
