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Iraq shoe-thrower flies out after release

AFP Global Edition 70 days ago

The Iraqi television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former US president George W. Bush was freed on Tuesday and went into hiding fearing for his life before flying out of the country. Muntazer al-Zaidi had been behind bars since he ...

Iraq shoe-thrower goes into hiding after release

AFP Global Edition 70 days ago

The Iraqi television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former US president George W. Bush was freed on Tuesday but quickly went into hiding fearing for his life, one of his brothers said. Muntazer al-Zaidi had been behind bars since he ...

Iraq shoe-thrower freed, accuses guards of torture

AFP Global Edition 70 days ago

The Iraqi television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former US president George W. Bush was freed on Tuesday and said he was tortured by electric shocks and simulated drowning in custody. Muntazer al-Zaidi had been behind bars ever since he ...

Iraq shoe-thrower free, accuses guards of torture

AFP Global Edition 70 days ago

Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former US president George W. Bush, was freed on Tuesday and said he had been tortured with electric shocks and simulated drowning. Zaidi had been behind bars ever since he ...

UK police to investigate spy over torture claim

AP News 74 days ago

British spy agency MI6 reports own officer amid torture concerns, prompting police probe Britain's foreign intelligence agency MI6 reported one of its officers to authorities amid new concerns over the country's possible complicity in torture, prompting police to launch an investigation Friday, ...

Doctors had 'central role' in CIA abuse: rights group

AFP Global Edition 85 days ago

A US-based medical rights advocacy group on Monday blasted health experts for playing a "central role" in advising and implementing the CIA's abusive interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) issued its six-page white paper after shocking details ...

Memos: CIA pushed limits on sleep deprivation

AP News 89 days ago

Memos shows that after waterboarding ended, CIA pushed limits on sleep deprivation A year after the Bush administration abandoned its harshest interrogation methods, CIA operatives used severe sleep deprivation tactics against a terror detainee in late 2007, keeping him awake for six ...

CIA prisoners faced chilling interrogation methods

AFP Global Edition 90 days ago

The first detailed picture of how so-called high value detainees spent their days inside secret Central Intelligence Agency-run prisons overseas has emerged in dozens of previously classified documents released this week. And the picture is chilling. A detainee could be forced to ...

CIA's interrogation program hastily put together

AP News 90 days ago

CIA documents show interrogation was a patchwork program, with policies written on the fly With just two weeks of training, or about half the time it takes to become a truck driver, the CIA certified its spies as interrogation experts after 9/11 ...

US prosecutor to probe alleged CIA abuses

AFP Global Edition 91 days ago

The US attorney general named a prosecutor to investigate possible crimes in secret CIA interrogations amid disclosures of threats to kill suspects' children and rape their female relatives. The revelations came in a de-classified 2004 report by then-CIA inspector general John Helgerson ...

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