Torture
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Barack Obama must fulfil his pledge to close Guantánamo Bay nowLetters: The president must act with urgency and let the remaining prisoners go home to their families before Donald Trump becomes the next commander-in-chief on 20 January
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British police criticised for lack of transparency in Bahrain training dealCampaigners say College of Policing should explain its work with country accused of numerous human rights abuses
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'The worst place on earth': inside Assad's brutal Saydnaya prisonSyria’s most notorious jail has been a journalistic blank spot. Now ex-detainees and architects have built an accurate model, using ‘ear-witness’ testimony, of the president’s hellish torture house
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Man used as test subject in CIA torture program to ask for Guantánamo releaseAbu Zubaydah, whom the CIA used as a guinea pig for its post-9/11 torture program, will plead his case before parole board equivalent on 23 August
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How did Rio's police become known as the most violent in the world?Once in decline, killings by police in Rio de Janeiro are on the rise as the Olympic games approach
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Terrorism, Trident, and Torture – a valedictory dispatchAnd Official Secrecy and Arms Sales as well
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Mind over mat: how yoga is helping refugee womenCharity-run classes provide a breathing space for women who may have faced torture and sexual abuse
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Theresa May must help UK citizens held in Iran’s notorious prisonsLetters: In places like Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, inmates are regularly denied urgently needed medical treatment as a means to pressure them into ‘confessing’ to crimes
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Briton ‘tortured’ in Sri Lanka returns to UKVelauthapillai Renukaruban says he was accused of being involved in Tamil Tigers and beaten with sticks and a metal bar
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Trump renews call for waterboarding: 'I like it a lot' – videoDonald Trump renewed his call for the reintroduction of waterboarding by the US military during a campaign stop in St Clairsville, Ohio, on Tuesday night
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Donald Trump renews support for waterboarding at Ohio rally: 'I like it a lot'Presumptive Republican nominee said ‘We have to fight fire with fire’ after referencing Isis and repeatedly compared Trans Pacific Partnership deal to rape
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Kenyan, 94, testifies about killings by British soldiersCourt in central London hears witness recall being beaten and seeing companions shot dead during Mau Mau insurgency
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Tamils stranded in Indonesia face 'probable torture' if returned to Sri LankaAsylum seekers among the group of 44 who arrived in Aceh by boat were tortured in Sri Lanka and face persecution if returned, a compatriot says
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Rogue Justice review: Bush, 9/11 and the assault on American libertyKaren Greenberg’s new book explores the decade after the cataclysm of 9/11 and how the US came ‘perilously close’ to ‘losing the protections of the Bill of Rights’
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Mau Mau rebellion victims claim parliament was misled over tortureCompensation claim brought by 44,000 Kenyans alleges widespread atrocities of British colonists in 1950s were covered up
Guardian Africa network Record levels of assault, abduction and torture reported in Zimbabwe