I [President Bush] further urge governments to [support] the efforts of non-governmental organizations to end torture and assist its victims. The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday it had repeatedly urged the...

June 26, 2003 The United States declares its strong solidarity with torture victims across the world. Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere. We are committed to building a world where human...

By Land, Sea, and Air Here’s a great website tracing the influence of Buddhism as it spread throgh Asia’s Medieval trade routes. One thing that impressed me was the extent and cosmopolitan character of...

So CACI, one of the mercenary companies subcontracted to torture Iraqi prisoners, is advertising on its jobs page: Interrogator/Intel Analyst Team Assists the interrogation support program team lead to increase the effectiveness of dealing...

US soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s personal human rights...

George Bush, April 30th, 2004:”There are no longer torture chambers or mass graves or rape rooms in Iraq.”

Another prisoner was killed at the Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad in November 2003 by a private contractor who worked as an interrogator for the CIA … because the CIA contractor was not in...

But within three years, we’ll be extracting as much from foreign suppliers as they can spare. At that point, demand cannot continue to grow at the current pace. It cannot exceed supply … For...

[Major General Antonio] Tagubas report listed some of the wrongdoing: Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a...

Photographs showing British soldiers beating and urinating on an Iraqi prisoner were published … [they are] beating the man with their rifle butts. He was reportedly arrested for theft. Their victim is said to...