Americans Sentenced in Afghan Torture
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Three Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were found guilty Wednesday in a Kabul court after a trial denounced by the defense as failing to meet basic international standards of fairness.    The three-judge panel sentenced accused ringleader Jonathan Idema, a former soldier with a past fraud conviction, and his right-hand man, Brent Bennett, to 10 years in jail...
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A Turk with German residency who spent  years in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp said in a magazine  interview that German soldiers abused him in Afghanistan  shortly after Pakistan handed him to U.S. authorities in 2001.
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The US is listed as a country where prisoners are at risk of torture in a Canadian foreign ministry training manual.
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A U.S. citizen was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison, the maximum sentence possible, for training with al Qaeda militants in Somalia in 2006.
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Australian Mamdouh Habib says he was tortured and abused during his detention at a US prison in Cuba.
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Three Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were found guilty Wednesday by a three-judge panel, after a trial criticized by the defense as failing to meet international standards of fairness.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - Some of the 26 Taliban  members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal  to release three kidnapped U.N. workers could be in the U.S.  military jail at Guantanamo Bay, a militant spokesman said on  Monday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - An American captured among a group of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters on Tuesday asked US President George W. Bush to commute his 20-year prison sentence for aiding Afghanistan&#39;s ousted Taliban government.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Aug. 23, 2004 - A defense lawyer for one of three Americans accused of torturing a dozen Afghan prisoners in a private jail showed a video in court Monday of Afghanistan&#39;s former education
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U.S. authorities in late 2001 forcibly transferred an Australian citizen to Egypt, where, he alleges, he was tortured for six months before being flown to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to court papers made public.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Three Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were found guilty by a three-judge panel Wednesday after a trial denounced by the defense as failing to meet basic international standards of fairness.    Two of the men - accused ringleader Jonathan Idema and his right-hand man, Brent Bennett - were sentenced to 10 years in jail...
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The United States has released 11 Afghans held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on suspicion of Taliban links after a request from President Hamid Karzai, an Afghan official said on Wednesday.
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Spc. Armin Cruz received a sentence of eight months in prison, a demotion, and a bad conduct discharge form the Army for having tortured Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Bagdat (Baghdad).
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A detainee was forced to kneel so many times he was bruised, a barber gave reverse mohawks and a female interrogator ran her fingers through a prisonerâs hair and sat in his lap, the US government says in the most
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A US military court Thursday sentenced Army Sergeant Ivan Frederick to eight years in prison for his part in the abuse of Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison.
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SAN DIEGO -- A total of 130 American troops have been punished or charged in cases involving the abuse of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon said yesterday.
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A group of Americans on trial for allegedly detaining and torturing Afghans in a secret prison showed videotapes Monday designed to show they were acting with the knowledge and approval of some Afghan and foreign authorities and that the Afghans they detained at their Kabul base were terrorists.