German trial stirs torture debate
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An ex-police officer goes on trial in Germany charged with threatening a suspect with torture.
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An American civil rights group filed a criminal complaint in Germany on Tuesday alleging Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other US officials condoned torture and human rights violations at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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BERLIN : Four US soldiers accused of abusing prisoners at a notorious jail in Iraq, including the suspected ringleader, face a military hearing in Germany on Monday, before their trial by court martial.
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Fresh accusations of torture at the US Guantanamo Bay prison emerge during the trial of five detainees transferred to Morocco.
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Germany is struggling to contain an embarrassing and potentially explosive debate on the Holocaust, just as it prepares to join other nations in commemorating the victims of Nazi aggression at Auschwitz.
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The US military looks into claims in a German magazine that US and Afghan troops abused a prisoner.
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Hair analysis is being used to test claims by a German who says he was abducted and taken to Afghanistan.
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MANNHEIM, Germany - A key suspect in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison voiced fear he was being made a scapegoat when he was asked to turn over a laptop computer and other evidence suspected of containing photos of the maltreatment, an investigator told a U.S. military court Monday...
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Four US soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners  are set to face pre-trial hearings in Germany.
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A German court on Monday found two army officers guilty of mistreating recruits with beatings and water torture, a case that sparked public outrage in a nation sensitive to military abuses because of its Nazi past.
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An attorney for families of Sept. 11 victims asked a court Friday to seek testimony from an al-Qaida suspect in Syria, saying it could lead to a stiffer sentence for a man convicted in Germany of aiding the suicide hijackers.
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BERLIN -- More than two years after a German citizen reported being kidnapped in the Balkans by the CIA, several lawmakers here are criticizing prosecutors for not conducting a more aggressive investigation into the bungled counterterrorism operation.
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The danger that state secrets could be revealed outweighs a German man's claims that the CIA tortured him in an Afghan prison, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in refusing to reinstate his lawsuit.
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Charles Graner, the suspected ringleader in the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal and three others are facing pre-trial hearings in Germany, marked by warnings by the judge for the US to speed up investigations.
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FRANKFURT -- While the British public reacted to the latest terrorist strike there with stoicism and a practiced determination to get on with life, Germany has erupted in a rancorous dispute over how to deal with a terrorist threat that has yet to materialize here.
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Evidence against the American terror suspect was obtained through torture, his lawyers say.
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A Lebanese-born German vows to get an apology from the US, alleging CIA agents abducted and tortured him.