Argentine Dirty War Figure Retracts Torture Tale
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By Daniel Trotta MADRID  - An Argentine former navy captain ontrial in Spain for genocide said on Monday he invented a storyabout pushing drugged political prisoners out of planes toprovoke an investigation into the country's dirty war.
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Controversial former ambassador Craig Murray says he is a "victim of conscience" after criticising the use of information allegedly gained from torture victims.
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A former soldier says the government breached his human rights after he underwent nerve gas tests in the 1960s.
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Spain said on Friday it had agreed to extradite to Argentina an ex-member of a death squad which tortured and killed people in the early 1970s, just before the South American country's notorious "Dirty War".
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A former police officer was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses in connection with the 1978 disappearance of a married couple during Argentina's military dictatorship.
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An Argentine ex-officer accused of human rights abuses -- including dumping live prisoners into the ocean from helicopters -- during his country's so-called "dirty war" in the 1970s, is due in the dock Friday ...
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How ironic: defense attorneys for Augusto Pinochet characterized the arrest order against the former Chilean tyrant as an abuse of human rights, alleging that the 89-year-old man cannot defend himself because of poor health.
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The Justice Department released a rewritten legal memo on what constitutes torture, backing away from its own assertions prior to the Iraqi prison abuse scandal that torture had to involve "excruciating and agonizing pain."
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A Spanish court rules that a former Argentine navy officer can be tried for alleged human rights abuses.
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Spanish judges heard gruesome testimony Thursday about atrocities by the former military regime during Argentina's "dirty war," including theft of babies and clandestine cremation of detainees' bodies.
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An Argentine former navy captain on trial in Spain for genocide said on Monday he invented a story about pushing drugged political prisoners out of planes to provoke an investigation into the country's dirty war.
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A judge in Argentina has paved the way for trying two notorious figures from the former military government.
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A former CIA operative who says he helped hunt down Ernesto "Che" Guevara and bury him in Bolivia 40 years ago now hopes to make a killing from the famed Argentine revolutionary's hair.
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Lucia Pinochet, daughter of Chile's former military ruler, condemns the use of torture under her father's rule.
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Javier Solana, European Union foreign policy chief, was on Thursday forced to issue a retraction after saying he had made &quot;direct contact&quot; with Hamas, listed by the EU as a banned terrorist group.
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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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A detainee being held for interrogation was stripped and confronted with an unmuzzled military police dog. He was suspected of having tried to escape and was later bitten by one of the dogs.