Americans in Afghan Trial Deny Torture
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Three American counterterrorism vigilantes on trial for allegedly running a private jail in Afghanistan denied charges they tortured prisoners and accused authorities Monday of withholding evidence that would prove they were working with U.S. knowledge.
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Three Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were found guilty Wednesday by a three-judge panel, after a trial criticized by the defense as failing to meet international standards of fairness.
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Nearly a dozen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp contend they were wrongly imprisoned after repeated abuse by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including beatings with chains, electric shock and sodomy, their lawyer said Monday.
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An Afghan court sentenced three Americans to between eight and 10 years in prison for illegally running a private jail and torturing suspects in a &quot;private war on terror&quot;.
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The trial is to begin shortly of three  Americans accused of torture and  hostage-taking in Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The US military is taking as few prisoners as possible in its campaign against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, partly to forestall more complaints about its conduct after at least eight prisoners died in custody, an American commander said yesterday.
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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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Three Americans charged with jailing, kidnapping and torturing prisoners in Afghanistan are to reappear in court after their trial was dramatically halted last week when the FBI returned seized evidence to Afghan authorities.
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An American citizen captured on an Afghanistan battlefield nearly three years ago says in court papers that he never took up arms against the United States and that he had been trying to get out of the country at the time.
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A US investigation found no evidence two Australian al Qaeda suspects held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba were abused by their American captors, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Thursday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The US military said yesterday it was investigating the deaths of two Afghan civilians in US custody in 2003, following a newspaper's report that Army Green Berets tortured some prisoners.
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Three Americans on trial in Afghanistan  for illegally imprisoning and torturing Afghans have appealed  to the U.S. ambassador in Kabul to intervene in the case,  lawyers for two of them said on Wednesday.
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London - A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay claims to have been tortured by the United States, Sky news reports. Moazzam Begg says he also witnessed the deaths of two fellow detainees &quot;at the hands of US military personnel&quot;.
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The charges against Sgt. James P. Boland raise questions about who authorized the interrogation methods used in Afghanistan.
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Three Americans have been sentenced to up  to 10 years in jail after being found guilty by an Afghan court  of charges including torture, running a private prison and  illegal detention.
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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 Pentagon denied today that detainees have been tortured or mistreated at a US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba despite a report that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) found abuse amounting to &quot;a form of torture&quot; at the facility