Palestinian officials allege torture
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Three ministers claim Israel used a banned method of interrogation - known as the  - on them.
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A group representing Israeli victims of Palestinian violence was mounting a court challenge against the planned release Friday of 256 prisoners, and a Palestinian Cabinet minister criticized the gesture as inadequate.
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The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday.
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Morocco is confronting the stains of past human rights abuses with public testimony about tortures and disappearances in the kingdom.
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Fighting between Hamas and Fatah is fuelling human rights abuses, Amnesty International says in a report.
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Amnesty International calls for a body to prosecute human rights violations by Israelis and Palestinians.
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A Pentagon spokesman said Monday that Red Cross officials have "made their view known" that the indefinite detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amounts to torture.
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Israeli security forces frequently beat Palestinians working illegally in the country, sometimes severely, and detain them for hours without food and water, an Israeli human rights group said in a report published Tuesday.
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Israel and the Palestinian Authority were engaged in intensive efforts Monday night to bring about the release of an Israeli Druze employee of CNN who was kidnapped by armed Palestinians in Gaza on Monday.
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Palestinian officials on Thursday denounced a militant group that has demanded the release of all Muslims imprisoned by the United States in exchange for two kidnapped Fox journalists.
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Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, under scorching criticism from senators, condemned torture as an interrogation tactic Thursday and promised to prosecute abusers of terror suspects. He also disclosed the White House was looking at trying to change the Geneva Conventions that protect prisoner rights.
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The ruling Hamas accused a key ally of President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday of trying to assassinate the prime minister, inflaming tensions between rival Palestinian factions to their highest point in a decade as fighting spread to the West Bank.
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A candidate in January&#39;s Palestinian presidential election says he has been detained and beaten by Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint.
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The ruling Hamas faction accused forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah of trying to kill Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and vowed to punish those responsible, raising fears of civil war.
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An apparent attempt to assassinate Gaza&#039;s intelligence chief with a bomb planted at his headquarters Saturday heightened tensions between President Mahmoud Abbas&#039; Fatah faction and the Islamic militant group Hamas.
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Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a top security official they accused of corruption and held him for several hours in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in a fresh challenge to President Yasser Arafat amid a wave of unrest.
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A human rights group says Egypt has tortured HIV-positive men before they are subjected to unfair trials.