Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP: Our police and security services should exist to uphold the rule of the law, not break it
The Labour backbencher on why she voted against the government’s damaging new intelligence bill on Monday. Pic: MI6 HQ.
torture
Clarke and Thornberry accuse government of ‘long-grassing’ torture inquiry
The UK has been accused of complicity in torture.
Syrians die at a rate of ten per day in Assad’s prisons
Amnesty International report finds ‘systematic torture’ by Assad regime
UKIP MEPs fail to back stronger EU anti-torture regulations
The move was described as a ‘new low’ for the party
Another damning report questions why we are still treating torture victims like criminals
Almost a quarter of detainees at Dorset immigration removal centre did not understand why they had been taken there
Top ten US aid recipients all practice torture
The top ten recipients of US foreign assistance this year all practice torture and are responsible for major human rights abuses, reports Daniel Wickham.
Torture evidence found in Syrian government prisons
Torture devices and evidence of abuse have been found in government-controlled prisons in the city of Raqqa, the first city to come under the control of the opposition, a report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims.
“Dear George…” – a reminder to Galloway of his support for “brutal Arab dictators”
Carl Packman writes a letter to George Galloway, reminding him of his record as, to quote the the prime minister, a supporter of “brutal Arab dictators”.
Syria: “They raised my toenails, stuck electrical wires under them and gave me electric shocks”
Syria: Amnesty International this morning revealed further, chilling details of life in Aleppo under the tyranny of Assad’s army thugs and Shabiha militia.
Syria: Chilling scale of Assad’s state-sponsored torture revealed
The chilling, frightening, inhuman scale of state-sponsored torture under the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad was revealed today.