Syrian Sues U.S. General in France for Torture
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A Syrian, who worked as a driver in Iraq,  filed a suit in Paris Tuesday for "maltreatment and torture"  against a U.S. general who commanded a Marine offensive in  Falluja.
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A leading voice in the opposition was killed with at least nine others. The U.S. reacted with unusually strong language that seemed to be aimed at Syria.
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A French engineering student who was  expelled from Syria on suspicion of trying to join Islamists  fighting U.S. forces in Iraq has been placed under formal  French judicial investigation, a judicial source said on  Friday.
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U.S. lawmakers on Thursday offered apologies to a Canadian citizen who was deported by U.S. counterterrorism officials to Syria, where he says he was imprisoned and tortured.
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One of four Britons still held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba claims in a letter released by lawyers that he has been subjected to vindictive torture and death threats.
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In a federal courtroom today,  nine former prisoners at U.S. military prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan will seek through an unusual lawsuit to hold outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and top military commanders personally responsible for the torture they say they endured.
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Four former detainees sued Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday along with 10 others in the military chain of command overseeing the American interrogation prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, alleging that the officials are personally responsible for
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A government commission said Monday that Canadian police informed U.S. authorities an Ottawa man was an Islamic extremist suspected of links to al-Qaida &#151; inaccurate information that likely led the Americans to deport him to Syria where he was imprisoned and tortured.
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The International Committee of the  Red Cross (ICRC) has accused the U.S. military of using tactics  "tantamount to torture" on prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in  Guantanamo Bay, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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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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Four British former inmates of the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay sued Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others on Wednesday saying they were tortured in violation of US and international law.
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An American civil rights group filed a criminal complaint in Germany on Tuesday alleging Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other U.S. officials condoned torture and human rights violations at Abu Ghraib ...
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A Palestinian doctor jailed for eight years in Libya along with five Bulgarian nurses for purportedly infecting children with the AIDS virus has filed a complaint with the U.N. charging he was tortured in captivity, his Dutch lawyer said Wednesday.
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TORONTO, Sept. 18 -- Canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to Syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found Monday.
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France's antiterrorist police on Friday identified a young Frenchman killed fighting the United States in Iraq, the first confirmed case of what is believed to be a growing stream of Muslims heading from Europe ...
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A Lebanese-born German vows to get an apology from the US, alleging CIA agents abducted and tortured him.
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A man who says he was questioned by British intelligence while being held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay is suing the British government for exploiting his alleged torture there, his lawyer said on Wednesday.