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CIA prisoners faced chilling interrogation methods
The first detailed picture of how so-called high value detainees spent their days inside secret Central Intelligence Agency-run prisons overseas has emerged in dozens of previously classified documents released this week. And the picture is chilling. A detainee could be forced to stand, almost naked, handcuffed, going days without sleep, and if that.. More -
Displaced Moro Muslims killed by Philippine army: Amnesty
Dozens of displaced people by the government attacks on Moro region in southern Philippines have either been abducted or killed by the military on claim of suspected links with Muslim fighters, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. The London-based rights watchdog said there were reports the military had labeled displaced communities on Mindanao.. More -
Destroyed Swat force displaced Pakistanis to stay in camp in Ramadan
As the Muslim month of Ramadan begins, tens of thousands of Pakistanis forced to flee their homes by government offensive against the Taliban will have no choice but to languish in camps or host families over the month of fasting. About 3 million people were forced from their homes by fighting in the northwest, most after government forces launched.. More -
100.000 Yemenis fleeing from clashes need aid: UN
More than 100,000 people in Yemen, many of them children, have fled their homes during a recent surge in fighting between the government and Houthi insurgents, a U.N. agency said on Friday. The children's agency UNICEF and other U.N. aid bodies expressed serious concern about what they called a deteriorating situation in the north of the country and.. More -
UN: Israel had 'impunity' in Gaza
The senior human rights official at the United Nations has said that the Israeli military acted with "near impunity" during its late-December to mid-January offensive on the Gaza Strip, violating international law. Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a report on Friday that evidence collected on the Gaza war had.. More -
Blackwater still armed in Iraq
Despite the Iraqi government's announcement earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater's operating license, the US State Department continues to allow Blackwater operatives in Iraq to remain armed. A State Department official told The Nation that Blackwater (which recently renamed itself Xe Services) is now operating in Iraq under the name "US.. More -
UN says 50 million women in Asia risk HIV
An estimated 50 million women in Asia are at risk of becoming infected with the HIV virus from their husbands or other partners, according to a U.N. report published Tuesday. The report produced by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, known as UNAIDS, and its partner organizations said the HIV epidemics in Asia vary between countries but are.. More -
Pakistanis see US as biggest threat
The polling was conducted by Gallup Pakistan, an affiliate of the Gallup International polling group, and more than 2,600 people took part. Interviews were conducted across the political spectrum in all four of the country's provinces, and represented men and women of every economic and ethnic background. When respondents were asked what.. More -
Israeli troops 'ill-treat kids'
Israel arrested 9,000 Palestinians last year, 700 of them children. A former Israeli military commander has told the BBC that Palestinian youngsters are routinely ill-treated by Israeli soldiers while in custody, reports the BBC' s Katya Adler from Jerusalem and the West Bank. "You take the kid, you blindfold him, you handcuff him, he's really.. More -
Palestinians use their own goods, fight dependence to Israel
At Garden's grocery store in Ramallah, Dalia al-Khatib hands out fliers and showcases Palestinian goods for Intajuna ("Our Products"), one of many campaigns asking Palestinians to avoid Israeli products. But across town, an all-Palestinian crew of laborers heads home after a day of work on the nearby Jewish settlement of Adam, like some.. More -
Uighur leader says 10,000 went missing in one night
The exiled leader of China's Uighurs said nearly 10,000 of her people were detained or killed last month in ethnic unrest and appealed for the United Nations to investigate their fate. Rebiya Kadeer, the US-based head of the World Uighur Congress, also said she was "perplexed" at the muted US response to the violence as she spoke during a.. More -
Militant Jewish settlers set up 11 outposts in the occupied West Bank
Israeli settler groups have set up 11 new outposts in the occupied West Bank, in a direct rebuttal of mounting US calls to freeze settlement activity. Young Jewish groups are reported to have set up the structures – mostly tents and huts on hilltops – in the West Bank over Monday night, in a move timed as a precursor to the meeting between.. More -
Migrants to Italy face 'a kind of slavery'
Thousands of migrants are being lured to Italy with false promises of work and forced to live in conditions akin to slavery, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday. In a study of a migrant camp near the town of San Nicola Varco, 100 km (63 miles) south of Naples, IOM officials found some 1,200 migrants squatting in abandoned.. More -
Facebook removes Hamas fan page
The networking Web site Facebook removed a fan page dedicated to supporters of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat reported on Sunday. The report published Sunday, said the Web page titled "Commander Haniyeh" had more than 10,000 friends when it was removed without any explanation. The Palestinian Maan news.. More -
The Uyghurs: A history of persecution
The Uyghur people of East Turkestan, an area known by the Chinese authorities as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, have long been victims of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s sixty-year authoritarian rule. In the years since the CCP gained control of East Turkestan in 1949 and before Deng Xiaoping launched his era of economic reforms, Uyghurs.. More
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