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The US Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged the existence of a memorandum, signed by President Bush, that authorizes the detention and interrogation of terror suspects overseas in a letter sent to the American Civil...

Incoming US Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) said Tuesday that his committee's priorities will include an investigation into CIA extraordinary rendition flights . In an interview with the Financial Times,...

Torture has become widespread in the strife-ridden southern Russian republic of Chechnya , with more than 100 known cases in both official and secret detention centers, according to a new report released...

JURIST Guest Columnist James Friedman of the University of Maine School of Law says that the veil of secrecy with which the United States has shrouded the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects makes the rule of law impossible to...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Thursday accused the British government of encouraging torture in a new report . HRW slammed the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair for attempting to lead evidence gained through torture ...

A federal judge in Chile placed former dictator Augusto Pinochet under house arrest Monday, marking the first time Pinochet has been detained on torture charges. Federal Judge Alejandro Solis ordered Pinochet's...

Chilean federal judge Alejandro Solis ordered the arrest of former dictator Augusto Pinochet Friday on charges in connection with 36 cases of kidnapping, 23 cases of torture and a single case of homicide at...

German intelligence agents personally witnessed the torture of detainees at a secret US prison in Europe two weeks after the Sept. 11 terror attacks , according to a German intelligence report leaked to Stern magazine. The leaked...

JURIST Guest Columnist and former Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor Henry King, Jr., now at Case Western Law School, and JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone now at Syracuse University College of...

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet told federal judge Alejandro Solis during a meeting Wednesday that he neither participated in nor was aware of the torture of thousands of citizens at Villa Grimaldi prison [Wikipedia...