Torture charges mar Western Sahara talks
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With each question she refused to answer, Zahra Bassiri said, Moroccan police grabbed her hair, yanked her head back and slammed her face against the wall.
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It is not only the government in Paris and numerous colleagues who demand the release of the two kidnapped French journalists in Iraq who have been threatened with death: There are also many voices from the Islamic world, including Amr Mussa, the secretary
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The vast Sahara has long sheltered rebels   and bandits but security experts fear its remote oases and   mountain hideouts may also be an ideal recruitment and training   ground for al Qaeda-linked militants.
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Talks on the fate of Western Sahara resume next week and independence movement Polisario has warned its foe Morocco that failure to find common ground may rekindle war in a region struggling to contain al Qaeda-linked violence.
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The kidnapping of two French journalists  in Iraq has injected new tension into France's debate over  banning Islamic headscarves in schools just as Paris was hoping  for a smooth start to the school year this week.
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One of North Africa's most wanted Islamic militant leaders, accused in the kidnapping of 32 European tourists last year, has been taken into custody in Algeria, authorities said on Thursday.
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In an unprecedented truth-seeking process  in the Arab world, Morocco tried to blot out stains of past  human rights abuses on Tuesday with public testimony about  tortures and disappearances in the Muslim kingdom.
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A human rights campaign group called on Morocco Tuesday to stop "muzzling" independence campaigners in the vast disputed region of Western Sahara, as UN-brokered peace talks on the 32-year row got underway in New York.
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The U.N. Security Council  exhorted Western Sahara's independence movement and Morocco on  Wednesday to put more effort into talks on the territory's  future that have marked time since opening in June.
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There have been calls for terror suspects being held without charge in British prisons to be brought to trial, following criticisms from a UN anti-torture body.
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Five Moroccans held for nearly three years at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay &#151; including a suspected bodyguard for Osama bin Laden &#151; went on trial here charged with posing a threat to national security.
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A Milan court will hear arguments on January 9 on whether to try CIA and Italian agents on charges of kidnapping a terrorism suspect in Milan and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured, a court source said on Monday.
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European Union criticism of Egypt's human rights record has forced government officials on the defensive over allegations of torture, the decades-old emergency law and the status of minorities.
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Lawyers for a British alleged mercenary, who Equatorial Guinea wants to extradite, say he could face torture.
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A key al-Qaida captive in U.S. custody told interrogators that a Moroccan on trial for helping the Hamburg-based Sept. 11 suicide pilots had no knowledge of the plot, according to a summary of the questioning of two key terror suspects presented Wednesday for the first time in court.
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A Milan court will hear arguments on  January 9 on whether to try CIA and Italian agents on charges  of kidnapping a terrorism suspect in Milan and flying him to  Egypt, where he says he was tortured, a court source said on  Monday.
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The kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq has injected new tension into France's debate over banning Islamic headscarves in schools just as Paris was hoping for a smooth start to the school year this week.