Torture 'still common in Turkey'
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Turkish police still use torture despite the government's zero tolerance policy, says Amnesty International.
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Human Rights Watch gives details of torture and abuse in prisons in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq.
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Dutch prosecutors said on Friday they  believed that some of those arrested at a suspected Kurdistan  Workers Party (PKK) camp in the Netherlands were planning to  carry out "terrorist attacks" in Turkey.
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The CIA operated secret prisons in Europe where terrorism suspects could be interrogated and were allegedly tortured, inquiry concludes.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 27 (IPS) - Seven months after a major investigation spelt out  Europe's involvement in a murky U.S. torture and kidnapping  programme, the EU's governments have claimed they are  powerless to prevent such human rights abuses in the future.
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Two reports on Turkey&#39;s application to join the European Union point to potential benefits from its membership, but highlight continuing human rights violations and Ankara&#39;s failure
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By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Frances Williams in Geneva. The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the US of using psychological and physical pressure to interrogate prisoners at
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Indonesian soldiers are routinely torturing suspected Acehnese rebels, Human Rights Watch says.
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The Republican debate in Columbia, South Carolina on May 15 broached the issue of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' and torture, and whether or not the use of either is legitimate. &nbsp;Ron Paul and John McCain were the only two in the whole field who called 'enhanced interrogation techniques' a euphemism for torture, and they were the only two who expressly rejected the use of these techniques. Ron Paul at one point accused Brit Hume, a Fox News moderator, as well as the other candidates, of engaging in 'newspeak.' &nbsp; This was a big highlight for me, even though I have, for years, resisted the urge to simply compare Fox News or the Bush administration to the societies described by George Orwell in his novels. I always rejected it as overly simplistic, or as breathless left-wing hysteria on par with 'OMG BUSHITLER' and the like. I must admit however that the exchange was getting pretty surreal until Ron Paul pointed it out. But that was hardly the strangest thing that happened. That would be the exchange between Paul and Giuliani, facilitated by moderator and all-around Fox News hack Wendell Goler. Paul comported himself well in spite of the openly hostile treatment by Fox News and some of his opponents, notching 2nd place in the Fox News text message poll. This is notable because Paul's positions on almost every issue stand in stark contrast to those of his opponents. Links, transcript, and some thoughts below the fold, with a poll.
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One of Turkeyâs richest businessmen has been taken hostage in Iraq, writes Tom Pattinson. Kahraman Sadikoglu, a shipping magnate, was shown on a private Turkish television channel being questioned by kidnappers.
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ANTALYA, Turkey -- After a rash of bombings, an extremist Kurdish militant group warned yesterday that ``the fear of death will reign everywhere in Turkey," and it urged tourists to avoid travel to the country.
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Europe's human rights chief said Thursday he had found evidence of widespread torture and other abuses against detainees in Chechnya, and accused the government of keeping quiet about people who have been abducted.
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Uganda's security forces routinely torture suspects, the Human Rights Commission says in its annual report.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has charged that the American military has intentionally used psychological and sometimes coercion &quot;tantamount to torture
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Prisoners who endure poor or degrading treatment suffer much of the same long-term psychological distress as do captives who are tortured, suggests a study published Monday.
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Turkish security forces clashed Monday with an angry crowd trying to lynch a man accused of raping several girls and killing two of them in southeastern Turkey, local media reported. One person was killed in the violence, and at least 22 were injured.
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Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq routinely torture detainees with methods including electric shock and hold them in overcrowded facilities without formal charges or access to legal aid, a human rights group said Tuesday.