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Solitary Confinement - Cruel and Inhuman
On any given day, as many as 200,000 men and women are locked in solitary in U.S. prisons - alone for 23 hours a day....
Regions: United States
Issues: Torture
Former Tibetan soldiers yearn for independence - 15 Mar 09
In 1950, Chinese troops defeated Tibet's small army and claimed the territory. By 1959, the CIA was training Tibetan resistance fighters ...
Regions: China
Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression, Freedom of religion & belief, Torture
Jorge Valls former prisoners of conscience poet and author speaks
Jorge Valls, former prisoner of conscience who served 20 years and 40 days in prison is author of a book of poems, Where I am there is not light and it is Barred and a chronicle of his imprisonment 20...
Regions: Cuba
Issues: Impunity, Mass killings, Torture
Bertha Antunez (about the hungerstrike) sobre huelga de hambre
Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, President of the Rosa Parks Feminist Movement for Civil Rights, Diosiris Santana Pérez, a member of the Pedro Luis Boitel Political Prisoners, Segundo Rey Cabrera Gonzál...
Regions: Cuba
Issues: Housing, Justice, Torture
Freed Guantanamo prisoner links UK with torture - 23 Feb 09
British resident, Binyam Mohamed, released from Guantanamo Bay prison after four years in captivity, has told how he was abducted, jailed and then tortured. ...
Regions: Cuba, Great Britain, United States
Issues: Arbitrary arrest, Detention, Torture
People & Power - Cambodia's Trials - 24 Feb 09 - Part 2
People&Power looks at case of Comrade Duch, a leader in the Khmer Rouge.
Regions: Cambodia
Issues: Mass killings, Torture, War crimes
Binyam Mohamed held by Met Police
Former Guantanamo Bay inmate Binyam Mohamed's been detained under the Terrorism Act after arriving back in the UK. ...
Regions: Cuba, Great Britain, United States
Issues: Arbitrary arrest, Detention, Torture
"A Brit tortured in Guantanamo" : An Interview with Binyam Mohamed's Lawyer, Yvonne Bradley 2-15-09
The lawyer of a British resident kept in Guantanamo, Yvonne Bradley, interviews with Russia Today about his case. (This video was originally uploaded to YouTube by ...
Regions: Cuba, United States
Issues: Detention, Prisons, Torture
US expands new detention centre - 20 Feb 09
As the US moves to shut down Guantanamo Bay, another detention facility at Afghanistan's Bagram airbase is being expanded amid fears that Washington is likely to press ahead with off-shore detention o...
Regions: Afghanistan, Cuba, United States
Issues: Detention, Prisons, Torture
Binyam Mohamed Released from Guantanamo Bay
A British resident held at Guantanamo Bay is to be the first detainee to be released since Barack Obama assumed the presidency. ...