Justice Dept. memo redefines acts of torture
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The Justice Department late yesterday published a revised and expansive definition of acts that constitute torture under domestic and international law, overtly
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The House of Representatives has adopted a bill requiring US intelligence agencies to renounce all forms of torture by following explicit rules set out by the US military.
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The US Justice Department revised a policy statement on torture, calling it ``abhorrent&#39;&#39; and illegal and defining it more broadly than an August 2002 memorandum that the Bush administration
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Forced nudity, hooding, using dogs,   conducting mock executions or simulated drownings were among   eight abusive interrogation practices banned under new rules   unveiled by the U.S. military on Wednesday.
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The U.S. government must provide  within 30 days documents relating to the treatment of prisoners  held at American detention centers overseas, including Iraq's  Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo Bay, a federal judge ordered  on Wednesday.
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Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, under scorching criticism from senators, condemned torture as an interrogation tactic Thursday and promised to prosecute abusers of terror suspects. He also disclosed the White House was looking at trying to change the Geneva Conventions that protect prisoner rights.
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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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President Bush today signed an executive order governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects by the CIA and barring torture, degrading treatment and serious acts of violence, the White House announced.
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The Pentagon acknowledged for the   first time that all detainees held by the U.S. military are   covered by the protections of an article of the Geneva   Conventions that bars inhumane treatment, according to a memo   made public on Tuesday.
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President Bush yesterday signed legislation realigning the nation&#39;s spy agencies to meet the new terrorist threat, declaring the law represents the &quot;most dramatic reform&quot; of intelligence
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Investigators will look into allegations of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay described in recently released FBI documents, authorities said, as a new batch of FBI memos was released.
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A trove of government disclosures forced by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has signaled that the abuse of detainees in Iraq and at the
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The White House bill in Congress would strip courts of jurisdiction on detainee confinement.
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Many harsh interrogation techniques would be made lawful by legislation put forward by the Bush administration.
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INTERROGATION ORDERS: President Bush signed an executive order Friday prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment in question terror suspects.
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The administration should bring its policies on prisoners in the war on terror into compliance with the Geneva Conventions. A prosecution before the first American military commission since World War II was
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At the request of the CIA, the Justice Department drafted, in March 2004, a confidential memo that authorizes the agency to transfer detainees out of Iraq for interrogation -- a practice