ACLU Urges Investigation of Detainee Abuse
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The organization asked new Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales Tuesday to appoint a special counsel to probe the mistreatment of detainees in the war on terrorism, citing what it claimed was Gonzales's "unavoidable conflict of interest in fully investigating and prosecuting wrongdoing by civilians in this matter."
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A civil liberties group is charging that military interrogators at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, some posing as FBI agents, humiliated and abused detainees, including inserting lit cigarettes in their ears.
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The group Human Rights Watch said in a report released Sunday that U.S. military commanders encouraged abusive interrogations of detainees in Iraq, even after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal called attention to the issue in 2004.
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U.S. special forces accused of abusing prisoners in Iraq threatened Defense Intelligence Agency personnel who saw the mistreatment, according to U.S. government memos released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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A human rights group said it had evidence of two previously unreported deaths of Afghan prisoners in US custody in Afghanistan, and accused Washington of covering up abuse of detainees.
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The practice of stopping people at New  England's main airport and detaining them for questioning based  on their behavior is unconstitutional and must be stopped, the  American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed on  Wednesday.
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A US senator has urged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to promptly open a probe into allegations that evidence of prisoner abuse by the US military has been suppressed, a US civil liberties group said.
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The American Civil Liberties Union  on Thursday accused the FBI and local police of spying on  political and faith-based groups and formally asked the  government for information about such FBI surveillance.
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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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The United States on Wednesday joined a rights group in calling for a full investigation into the death of a Kurdish law student in Iran after he was detained in the western city of Sanandaj.
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The US Navy says it is investigating photos that appear to show abuse of Iraqi detainees.
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A US-based human rights group has challenged Americaâs treatment of 11 al-Qaeda suspects, saying some have âdisappearedâ in US custody while others may have been tortured.
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A confidential report in December 2003 warned that detainees were being abused, more than a month before Army investigators received the photographs from Abu Ghraib prison that touched off investigations into prisoner mistreatment.
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BERLIN -- A group of American civil rights attorneys filed a criminal complaint in German court yesterday against top US authorities, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for acts of torture committed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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Six human rights groups urged the U.S. government on Thursday to name and explain the whereabouts of 39 people they said were believed to have been held in U.S. custody and "disappeared."
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The U.S. military is investigating whether American soldiers abused an Afghan detainee so badly that he died last year at a special forces base in southeastern Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday.
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A military judge hearing evidence into alleged abuses at Abu Ghraib in Baghdad is demanding that prosecutors speed up their investigation.