Posts Tagged ‘Human rights abuses’

Human Rights Abuses: Catching Immigrants For Profit

Print Friendly (Seattle Globalist/Flickr) Earlier this month, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) released a report on documents it obtained through the Freedom of Information Act concerning the U.S. immigration detention system. As Tory Johnson writes for Immigration Impact: The newly revealed ICE contracts and inspections expose the lack of transparency, accountability, and consistency that govern the taxpayer-funded system […]

Bipartisan study concludes US Government used widespread torture after 9/11

WASHINGTON — A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” and that the nation’s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it. The sweeping, 577-page report says that while brutality […]

CIA Secret Prison: Polish Leaders Break Silence About Black Site

CIA Secret Prison: Polish Leaders Break Silence About Black Site By VANESSA GERA 03/31/12 01:45 PM ET 837 154 WARSAW, Poland — For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country’s politicians, journalists and the public. […]

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