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   Child torture in Massachusetts

   "We don't torture," President Obama stated just days after taking office. But torture is being carried out right in his back yard. While suspected terrorists in U.S. custody may be protected from torture today, children with disabilities at a government-funded facility in Massachusetts are not.
   Laurie Ahern,  The Washington Post   Sat Sep 18 08:00:00 EDT 2010

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   A disservice to defenders of human rights

   Anne Applebaum [" Iran, a U.N. paragon ?," op-ed, May 4] was right to bemoan the U.N. Human Rights Council 's poor performance on many fronts, including its disproportionate focus on Israel, and to declaim the hypocrisy of Iran's gaining a seat on the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. But she...
   The Washington Post   Sat May 08 08:00:00 EDT 2010

3. World

   

   U.N. torture investigator Manfred Nowak...

   U.N. torture investigator Manfred Nowak speaks during a media conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009. Nowak, was barred from Zimbabwe and returned to South Africa after a night in the airport, the angry envoy said Thursday, calling his treatment "alarming" evidence of the split in the southern African country's coalition government. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
   Themba Hadebe,   Thu Oct 29 00:33:29 EDT 2009

4. Zimbabwe accuses U.N. rights expert of provocation

   HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe on Friday accused United Nations torture expert Manfred Nowak, who was expelled from the country, of trying to provoke a diplomatic incident by ignoring a request to delay his trip.
   Cris Chinaka,  Reuters   Fri Oct 30 05:05:29 EDT 2009

5. Zimbabwe foreign minister: UN trip a 'provocation'

   HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe's foreign minister on Friday sharply criticized as "a provocation of the highest order" an attempt by the U.N. torture investigator to visit Zimbabwe and investigate alleged attacks by thugs linked to the ruling party on its opponents.
   ANGUS SHAW,  AP   Thu Oct 29 23:18:45 EDT 2009

6. U.S. Rebuffs U.N. Requests for Guantanamo Visits, Data on CIA Prisons

   UNITED NATIONS -- The Obama administration has declined requests from U.N. human rights investigators for information on secret prisons and for private interviews with inmates at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.N. officials said, dampening their hopes of greater U.S....
   Colum Lynch,  The Washington Post   Thu Jul 23 08:00:00 EDT 2009

7. European Nations May Investigate Bush Officials Over Prisoner Treatment

   BERLIN, April 21 -- European prosecutors are likely to investigate CIA and Bush administration officials on suspicion of violating an international ban on torture if they are not held legally accountable at home, according to U.N. officials and human rights lawyers.
   Craig Whitlock,  The Washington Post   Wed Apr 22 08:00:00 EDT 2009

8. No Reason to Avoid the Truth

   It is ironic that David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey ["A Truth Commission?," op-ed, Feb. 17], who spent the entire Bush administration defending as legal its every initiative in the "war on terror," now oppose a truth commission partly on the grounds that it might facilitate international prose...
   The Washington Post   Sat Feb 21 07:00:00 EST 2009

9. White House Pushes Waterboarding Rationale

   After years of refusing public comment on a particularly harsh CIA interrogation method, top Bush administration officials have suddenly begun pressing a controversial argument that it was legal for the CIA to strap prisoners to a board and pour water over their face to make them believe they wer...
   Dan Eggen,  The Washington Post   Wed Feb 13 07:00:00 EST 2008

10. Jordan's Spy Agency: Holding Cell for the CIA

    AMMAN, Jordan -- Over the past seven years, an imposing building on the outskirts of this city has served as a secret holding cell for the CIA.
    Craig Whitlock,  The Washington Post   Sat Dec 01 07:00:00 EST 2007