Detainees recount torture in Russia's Chechnya
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Beatings with bottles, sleep  deprivation and threats of violence against relatives are all  routine forms of torture in detention centres in the rebellious  Russian region of Chechnya, former inmates say.
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As Russians bury their dead, officials look at terrorist links to Chechen rebels.
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed a national day of mourning on Monday for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure, while in this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya families continued searching for the missing.    A prosecutor said the hostage-takers belonged to a cell formed by radical Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, the Interfax news agency reported...
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[World News]: Washington, Dec 26 : At least ten current and former detainees at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have alleged that they were abused in custody.
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An Australian detainee held at the American base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has provided a detailed account of torture in a sworn statement.
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BBC News Online examines the background to the conflict in Chechnya.
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Chechen security forcesÂ brutish acts, such as the torture of a woman accused of adultery, have gone unpunished.
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MOSCOW -- Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who seized more than 1,000 hostages in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying yesterday. Nikolai Shepel, Russia's deputy prosecutor general, said forensic specialists found traces of drugs in the bodies of some of the ...
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Researchers who studied prisoners in the former Yugoslavia reported on Monday that psychological torment and humiliation can inflict as much terror and trauma as physical torture.
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There are fresh allegations that prisoners under US custody in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered serious physical abuse from their interrogators.
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Hostage-takings and kidnappings have been a feared part of life in Chechnya and other parts of Russia's disorderly North Caucasus region for centuries.
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Australian Mamdouh Habib says he was tortured and abused during his detention at a US prison in Cuba.
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Those arrested included a Chechen crime boss and career officers from Russiaâs police and intelligence services.
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A human rights group said Friday that 128 people from Chechnya were abducted in 2004 and are still missing, Interfax reported. Known as Memorial, the group also said 241 Chechen
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TWO Chechen women suspected of blowing up two Russian passenger planes last month were detained but freed -- and then went on to bribe their way aboard.
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A Briton being held at Guantanamo Bay was tortured, held in solitary confinement for almost two years and "partially witnessed" U.S. military interrogators killing two detainees at an American base in Afghanistan, he said in a letter released by his lawyers Friday.
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Human rights violations in the Russian region of Ingushetia have increased with a surge in abductions and beatings, Amnesty International said on Thursday.