Council of Europe unveils torture report focusing on 2014 unrest in UkraineThe Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture uncovered violations of human rights and abuse of protesters detained by the Ukrainian police during the 2014 Maidan protests.13:05 13.01.2015
Lithuanian Prosecutor General to request data on CIA prisonsThe Prosecutor General’s Office in Lithuania will request additional information from the US on the detention of terrorist suspects and their interrogation abroad, RIA Novosti reports on Wednesday according to Irmantas Mikelionis, Chief Prosecutor of Lithuania's Organized Crime Department.16:53 10.12.2014
ECHR notifies Russia of a claim filed by paralyzed convict TopekhinThe European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) addressed a series of questions to the parties to a case launched by Vladimir Topekhin, a paralyzed Russian national sentenced to four years in prison for fraud.17:54 08.12.2014
Russian lawmakers call for life sentence for abuse of prisoners - reportIvan Sukharev and Anton Ishchenko, lawmakers from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), have proposed life sentences for personnel of prisons and pretrial detention wards who torture inmates.10:49 02.12.2014
US Senate Committee votes to declassify parts of CIA interrogation reportThe US Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to declassify portions of a groundbreaking five-year study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) controversial post-9/11 interrogation program, Committee Chairperson Dianne Feinstein announced in a statement.16:48 04.04.2014
No rights violations if Russia extradites Kazakh national – ECHRThe European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held Friday that Russia’s extradition of a Kazakh national to his home country in connection with a 2001 murder case would not constitute a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights’ (Convention) prohibition of torture.16:41 03.04.2014
ECHR: Poland grilled on CIA black site allegationsDuring a speech on September 6, 2006, then US President George W. Bush addressed the nation and the families of those killed in the 9/11 terror attacks. He revealed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was in fact running a secret counter-terrorism program without going into much details about it, and declared the program closed. Bush also assured the American people that torture was not used against those suspected of terrorism captured through the CIA program. He rather described the methods used to extract intel as an “alternative set of procedures”.13:14 13.12.2013
UN Human Rights Rapporteur calls CIA extraordinary rendition “global conspiracy”While delivering his statement in the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) hearing on the alleged extraordinary rendition of Al Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah by the CIA in Poland, Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, referred to the high-value detainee (HVD) program and the practice of extraordinary rendition a “global criminal conspiracy.”15:58 03.12.2013
Poland calls for confidentiality in CIA black-site prison investigationAt the ongoing European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) hearing of the secret CIA run-prisons in Poland, the representatives of the Polish government called for more confidentiality of the proceedings, saying that the investigation was still in progress, RAPSI reports live from the courtroom.15:11 03.12.2013
Elucidating the CIA’s post-9/11 justice programMore than a decade has passed since that sunny fall morning when four hijacked passenger planes brought the US to its knees. The coordinated attacks of September 11, 2001 killed nearly 3,000 people, obliterated New York’s Twin Towers, caused the partial collapse of the Pentagon, and unrecognizably altered the face of US national security. The attacks compelled security agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to improvise tools with which to confront a threat unprecedented in the annals of war: worldwide, stateless, ideology-driven terrorism.14:18 05.11.2013
9/11 defense attorneys urge Obama to declassify information on rendition programSeveral defense attorneys representing Khalid Shaikh Mohammad (KSM) and his alleged 9/11 co-conspirators have written a letter imploring US President Barack Obama to declassify information on what has come to be known as the Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation (RDI) program, The Miami Herald reported Friday, alongside a copy of the letter itself.14:41 28.10.2013
US officials responsible for "indisputable" torture – reportAmerica’s highest-ranking officials bear responsibility for the country’s “indisputable” practice of torture, according to a report released by influential bipartisan think tank the Constitution Project Tuesday.20:08 18.04.2013
Former Georgian prison chiefs detained in inmate torture caseThe former heads of three prisons in Georgia have been arrested over accusations of torturing prisoners, the News Georgia news agency reported on Tuesday, citing Georgian Prosecutor General Archil Kbilashvili.18:00 16.04.2013
Man who filmed torture in a Georgian prison arrestedVladimir Bedukadze, a former warden who filmed incidents of torture in the Gldani Prison in Georgia, was arrested in Tbilisi International Airport.13:44 18.01.2013
UN proposes Russia should consider torture as a separate crimeThe UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) has found that torture is employed in the Russian law enforcement system, in the military and in families and has proposed that Russia should introduce a notion of "torture" as a separate crime to the Criminal Code and should stipulate the punishment of officials at all levels for using it.12:00 26.11.2012
Employees of another Georgian prison detained on torture chargesThe Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office detained on Thursday four employees of Kutaisi Prison No. 16, Prosecutor Shota Tkeshelashvili said at a press briefing.15:27 27.09.2012