Defense spokesman says US doesn&#39;t share Red Cross view of &#39;torture ...
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PENTAGON The Pentagon doesn&#39;t share the view of the Red Cross about the indefinite detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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GENEVA -- The international Red Cross said Tuesday that US officials have failed to address concerns about some significant problems in the treatment of terror suspects detained at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Pentagon officials yesterday repudiated the harsh interrogation tactics adopted since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, specifically forbidding U.S. troops from using forced nudity, hooding, military dogs and waterboarding to elicit information from detainees captured in ongoing wars.
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A fter a prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, the International Committee of the Red Cross has reportedly found that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay are subjected to interrogation methods that are &quot;tantamount to torture.
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New documents showing widespread  U.S. abuse of prisoners overseas did not provoke the intense  backlash of the Abu Ghraib photos but could prove more damaging  at confirmation hearings for President Bush's attorney general  nominee, rights activists say.
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The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the tactics used on prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the US military as &quot;tantamount to torture,&quot; The New York Times reported this week.
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Non-Iraqi prisoners captured by US forces on the Iraq battlefield are not entitled to the protections afforded by the Geneva Conventions, according to a recent legal opinion from the Justice Department.
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In a rare admission, the United States said on Tuesday its own human rights record was in question in an annual report that criticized Iraq for its death squads with government links, kidnapping and torture.
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CAMP PENDLETON  Lawyers for a Marine facing court-martial in the death of an Iraqi inmate won&#39;t be allowed to subpoena a former top Justice Department lawyer who wrote memos saying the Geneva Conventions don&#39;t apply to some prisoners of ...
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BERLIN  - German prosecutors said Thursday they won't investigate Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld or other U.S. officials in response to a criminal complaint filed by a group of American lawyers over torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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LONDON -- The United States has not upheld obligations to reject torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading behavior in the war on terror launched after Sept. 11, 2001, Amnesty International said today.
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The United States has manifestly failed to uphold obligations to reject torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading behavior in the "war on terror" launched after Sept. 11, 2001, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
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The U.S. military defended its human-rights record in Afghanistan on Wednesday, claiming that a May inspection by an American general found no evidence of abuse at the 22 detainee facilities in the country, while admitting that his still-unreleased report will not include any earlier incidents.
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A Pentagon spokesman said Monday that Red Cross officials have "made their view known" that the indefinite detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amounts to torture.
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The attorney general nominee declined to say if he considered harsh interrogation techniques to be torture.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday he will refuse to publicly say whether the interrogation tactic known as waterboarding is illegal, digging in against critics who want the Bush administration to define it as torture.