NY Mauritanians accuse former leader of torture
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Exiled Mauritanians living in New York filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the Northwest African nation's former President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of torture and  crimes against humanity.
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Britainâs former ambassador to Uzbekistan today accused the Foreign Office of trying to âfit him upâ for speaking out about torture in the former Soviet republic.
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East Timor's ex-prime minister Mari Alkatiri has been questioned by the prosecutor-general's office over allegations he authorised the arming of a hit squad tasked with eliminating his rivals.
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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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A Moroccan being retried on charges he aided the Sept. 11 plotters was part of lead hijacker Mohamed Atta's inner circle and knew of the group's arguments for turning to violence, a witness testified Tuesday.
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Tunisian authorities have broken a pledge not to mistreat two former detainees at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay who were sent home nearly three months ago, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
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An Egyptian cleric, speaking publicly for the first time, said Thursday that Egyptian officials tortured him in prison after he was kidnapped in Italy &#151; allegedly by CIA agents &#151; and sent here for interrogation.
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Men suspected of killing French tourists in Mauritania belong to an al-Qaeda-linked group, prosecutors say.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame issued a blistering attack against a French judge who called for his prosecution over alleged complicity in the death of the country's former leader, the incident that sparked the 1994 genocide.
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_ A man who set himself afire near the White House was upset with the way he was being treated as an FBI informant, specifically complaining to The Washington Post about his inability to return to Yemen to visit his ill wife.
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Mauritania blasted fellow West African country Burkina Faso as &quot;evil&quot; on Friday for allegedly plotting to destabilise the potentially oil-rich Islamic republic.
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Stone-throwing youths attacked refugee camps and torched homes in East Timor, raising tensions as thousands of supporters of ex-premier Mari Alkatiri waited outside the capital Dili.
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HAMBURG -- A Moroccan being retried on charges he aided the Sept. 11 plotters was part of lead hijacker Mohamed Atta's inner circle and knew of the group's arguments for turning to violence, a witness testified yesterday.
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Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Vietnam of mass arrests and torture of ethnic minorities in the central part of the country and urged Cambodia to open its border and allow asylum-seeking tribal members to cross.
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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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A murder-suicide by the son of a 60's cult leader has prompted former members to come forward with claims of abuse.
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Former Dutch lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the target of death threats over her criticism of radical Islam, said she has asked France to grant her citizenship because she cannot be assured of protection back home.