Abuse survivors say cleric hid evidence
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LOS ANGELES -- A 25-year-old Mexican man who says he was raped by a priest filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday against a Mexican cardinal, alleging he hid evidence to protect a priest accused of molesting boys. The plaintiff, Joaquin Aguilar Mendez, alleges that Cardinal Norberto Rivera, now Mexico's top-ranking cardinal, helped cover up abuse by the ...
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Harrowing tales of physical and sexual   abuse at the heart of a best-selling memoir about growing up   inside Ireland's Roman Catholic institutions are simply not   true, the author's family said on Tuesday.
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Notorious Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi appears to be increasingly desperate, accusing Muslim clerics of betrayal in an audio recording released Wednesday.
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British authorities allege that a radical Islamic cleric encouraged his followers to kill non-Muslims. appeared in court today, where prosecutors read a 16-count indictment.
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Videos of Muslim extremists beheading hostages were found in the home of the spiritual leader of 12 Muslims on trial for planning violent jihad to force Australia to withdraw its troops from Iraq, the prosecutor said.
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Prosecutors wrapped up their case against defrocked priest Paul Shanley on Monday after a psychiatrist testified that it is not uncommon for adults who suffer trauma as children to repress memories of the experience.
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A Muslim cleric freed from prison in Egypt on Sunday four years after he was grabbed in a Milan street in a suspected CIA kidnapping said on Monday the ordeal had made him a wreck.
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CAIRO, Egypt A former military spokesman says yet more photos showing apparent abuse of Iraqi prisoners only reflect isolated acts.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - An elderly man has   disappeared after testifying that he was tortured by a former   police commissioner during the country's military dictatorship,   and concerns are growing for his safety.
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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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A federal prosecutor in Alexandria made a comment last year suggesting that a Falls Church man held in a Saudi Arabian prison had been tortured, according to a sworn affidavit from a defense lawyer that was recently filed in federal court in Washington.
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THE Indonesian cleric accused of heading the al-Qaeda-linked terror group behind the 2002 Bali bombings proclaimed his innocence as he went on trial yesterday, while prosecutors alleged he spurred followers in &quot;the waging of war&quot; against the United States
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A U.S. lawyer accused of helping a  radical Muslim cleric smuggle terrorist messages out of prison  wept in court on Wednesday after being asked whether she would  repeat her actions.
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Missing medical evidence taken from the body of an Iraqi man beaten by Marine prison guards resurfaced this week, a defense attorney for an officer charged in connection with the man's death said Thursday. For months, the military had insisted the evidence was lost.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - The lawyer for defrocked  priest Paul Shanley derided his accuser's memory on Tuesday as  arguments began in a child rape case at the heart of the U.S.  Catholic Church abuse scandal.
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A Moroccan being retried on charges he aided the Sept. 11 plotters was part of lead hijacker Mohamed Atta's inner circle and knew of the group's arguments for turning to violence, a witness testified Tuesday.
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A man who shot a former priest made wild claims to doctors, meaning he either had severe psychotic symptoms or was trying to fake them, a psychiatrist testified Tuesday.