Prominent Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab has been removed from his cell to an unknown location, losing all contact with his family and...
Thursday, May 16, 2013
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A UAE court on Monday jailed three Britons for four years each on drugs charges, amid calls for their release and claims they were beaten and given...
Monday, April 29, 2013
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The Guardian and BBC Arabic revealed a link Wednesday between former CIA chief David Petraeus and Iraqi torture centers during the US's bloody...
Thursday, March 7, 2013
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Two days ago, Kuwaitis reacted online to a new case of torture. Mubarak Mishaal Mubarak, a 19-year-old Kuwaiti student in Sharjah, was beaten and...
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In 2007, the UN set up an international body to monitor the implementation of its Convention Against Torture (CAT). This group, the Subcommittee on...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
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The uprising in Qatif, Saudi Arabia is not a revolution. For the most part, people have not demanded the “fall of the regime.” Starting in March 2011...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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Hamada Saber’s beating by the police captured on live TV, his subsequent denial of the police’s wrongdoing, and consequent confirmation of the...
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An Egyptian activist who slipped into a coma following three days of torture in police custody died on Monday, the health ministry and his party said...
Monday, February 4, 2013
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A lawyer for two female musicians from a left-wing band on Wednesday accused Istanbul police of torturing them with the aim of ending their careers....
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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