The Washington Post’s Joby Warrick reports today that At least two dozen other former and current detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere say they were given drugs against their will or witnessed other inmates being drugged, based on interviews and court documents. Warrick’s WaPo article gives a vivid account from Adel al-Nusairi, one of the [...]
US May Have Drugged Detainees in Violation of Nuremberg Code
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 22. Apr, 2008 in breaking news, human rights, torture and detention
US Attorney Says CIA Interrogation Tapes Still Exist
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 10. Dec, 2007 in breaking news, human rights, torture and detention
Breaking news on the ‘Skeeter Bites Report: A letter by a Virginia-based U.S. attorney to a federal appeals court appears to contradict CIA Director Michael Hayden’s public statements on the destruction of hundreds of hours of video footage of “extreme” interrogations of suspected al-Qaida operatives by strongly indicating that at least two of the videos [...]
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