Disappearances in Egypt & Torture by a Good and Faithful Ally

<object id=”flashObj” width=”420″ height=”267″ classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0″> Joint press statement On Human Rights Day:   Torture – not an isolated incident On Human Rights Day, the undersigned organizations condemn increasing violations by the Ministry of Interior in a manner that indicates they have been given free reign to abuse citizens using extralegal practices such as torture, enforced disappearance, and other…

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Syria’s Torture and Murder of Its Palestinians

Hundreds of Palestinians Have ‘Disappeared’ at the Hands of Assad’s Secret Police Thugs Ali Al Shihabi Most supporters of the Palestinians and anti-imperialists support Syria against its Islamic opponents, Al Nusra and ISIS and oppose imperialist attempts to intervene in the civil war.  But there is a danger that in defending the Syrian regime and…

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Israeli Soldiers Torture and Abuse Palestinian Children

Israel’s Occupation Forces Have Learnt Well from the Nazis Fighting ‘terrorism’ I have to confess that, immune as I am to stories of the violence and brutality of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, I found the programme below, made by Australian TV, shocking.  I’ve been on the streets of Derry and Belfast when British…

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How the United States set up a Network of Torture Centres in Iraq

3,000 victims a month as Sunni-Shi’ite sectarian warfare was created Some of the thousands of Iraqi bodies that resulted from James Steele‘s counter-insurgency program US paramilitaries in action – repeat of Steel’s experience in El Salvador The baby-faced torturer-in-chief, James Steele Steele wasn’t a lone operative – he e-mailed Defence Secretary Donald  Rumsfield Rumsfield forwards…

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