Marty condemns "wall of silence" over CIA prisons
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STRASBOURG, France  - European governments have built a "wall of silence" in response to charges they were complicit in a CIA program that included holding terrorist suspects in secret jails, a Swiss investigator said on Wednesday.
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Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell urges the immediate closure of the US prison in Guantanamo Bay.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has   sought to bolster ties with the United States since she took   office, rebuked Washington on Saturday for sanctioning secret   CIA prisons used to interrogate terror suspects.
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President Bush's disclosure that terrorism suspects had been held in CIA-run prisons drew approval Wednesday from activists and defense attorneys, but some called for details on the secret lockups.
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Sgt. Javal Davis has acknowledged stepping on the fingers and toes of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, but said he was ordered to "soften them up." Spc. Sabrina Harman was photographed standing behind naked, hooded Iraqis stacked in a human pyramid.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin ridiculed the trial as "utter nonsense." Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sent a plea to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asking him to help spare the defendant from a Siberian prison camp.
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The CIA used a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding on three suspects captured after the September 11 attacks, CIA Director Michael Hayden told Congress on Tuesday.
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"The military intelligence categorically did not participate in any kind of activities of this kind."  The CIA ran secret prisons in Europe, including in Poland, said the head of a European investigation who was to present new findings Friday on what he has called a "spider's web" of human rights abuses during ... via Times-News
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European lawmakers demanded on Thursday that their governments reveal the location of secret CIA prisons after U.S. President George Bush admitted Washington held terrorist suspects in jails abroad.
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Leaked memo suggests government has 'no interest' in deporting thousands of prisoners, despite pledge
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While growing up on "the wrong side" of the wall  in Soviet-controlled East Berlin,    Wolfgang Thierse  was shushed into absolute silence when his father strained to listen to jammed broadcasts of parliamentary debates in West Germany. Thierse dreamed one day of directing such discussions himself.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay for foreign terrorism suspects should be immediately closed and its inmates moved to the United States.
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&quot;We will have to put an end to three &#39;Ss&#39; - Silence, Stigma and Shame. Young people can protect themselves only if they have proper information about HIV/AIDS,&quot; he noted.
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One of North Korea's cruelest prisons is a place where beatings and executions are common, and so isolated that a child born behind its barbed wire may never hear of the state's leaders, an escapee said on Monday.
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John Major says stories he tried to block the release of papers on Black Wednesday are the result of a whispering campaign.
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Washington, Dec 8 : An official US memo has described how American special operations task force abused prisoners in Iraq and then threatened the Defence Intelligence Agency agents, who witnessed the mistreatment, from reporting it.
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