6 posts tagged with torture and GenevaConventions (View popular tags)

Torboto: The Robot That Tortures People.
posted on Apr 23, 2007 - View this thread

CIA Staff Worried Following on this previous (archived) post, it appears that some CIA staff are concerned the Justice Department might not defend them from charges of torture or human rights violations. " . . . some CIA officers have worried privately that they may have violated international law or domestic criminal statutes."
posted on Sep 11, 2006 - View this thread

How Doctors Got Into the Torture Business
An Interview with Steven Miles: The torture-endangered Society
posted on Jun 28, 2006 - View this thread

Outsourcing Torture The secret history of America’s “extraordinary rendition” program.
posted on Feb 8, 2005 - View this thread

Human Rights Watch Report: The Road to Abu Ghraib
Introduction, A Policy To Evade International Law:
Circumventing the Geneva Conventions, Undermining the Rules Against Torture, Renditions, “Disappearances” and so on and so on...
See also Human rights group finds Abu Ghraib cover-up
posted on Jun 9, 2004 - View this thread

U.S. tries to block UN anti-torture vote "Concerned about the possibility of independent visits to U.S. civilian and military prisons, the United States sought Wednesday to block a vote on a U.N. plan meant to enforce a convention on torture. "
posted on Jul 24, 2002 - View this thread