Guantanamo female interrogators force detainees to have sex with them

Mohamedou Ould Slahi - ex-Guantanamo detainee (left) - Guantanamo prison (right)

In an appalling revelation, an ex-Guantanamo detainee has published the horrific accounts of his detention in the most hated prison of all times - the Guantanamo.

Follows a six-year battle to declassify the information in the manuscript, Mohamedou Ould Slahi published his memoir of his time in Guantanamo, bringing out the horrors and atrocities committed to him and other prisoners.

He claims that guards used every opportunity to beat the detainees and then the female interrogators sexually abiused him and others. He writes:

'As soon as I stood up, the two _______ took off their blouses, and started to talk all kind of dirty stuff you can imagine, which I minded less. 'What hurt me most was them forcing me to take part in a sexual threesome in the most degrading manner. Both _______ stuck on me, literally one on the front and the other older _______ stuck on my back rubbing ____ whole body on mine.

Read more about it at: Daily Mail
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Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres revealed

It has been revealed  reports Guardian, that the Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. 

These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country's descent into full-scale civil war.

Colonel James Steele was a 58-year-old retired special forces veteran when he was nominated by Donald Rumsfeld to help organise the paramilitaries in an attempt to quell a Sunni insurgency, an investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic shows.

There is no evidence that Steele or Coffman tortured prisoners themselves, only that they were sometimes present in the detention centres where torture took place and were involved in the processing of thousands of detainees.

The Guardian/BBC Arabic investigation was sparked by the release of classified US military logs on WikiLeaks that detailed hundreds of incidents where US soldiers came across tortured detainees in a network of detention centres run by the police commandos across Iraq. Private Bradley Manning, 25, is facing a prison sentence of up to 20 years after he pleaded guilty to leaking the documents.

Samari claimed that torture was routine in the SPC-controlled detention centres. "I remember a 14-year-old who was tied to one of the library's columns. And he was tied up, with his legs above his head. Tied up. His whole body was blue because of the impact of the cables with which he had been beaten."

Read more about it at: The Guardian

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Group of 180 Iraqis to accuse the UK of torture and sexual abuse over five years

A group of 180 Iraqis will accuse Britain next week for breaching international law by torturing and killing prisoners during the occupation of Iraq over five years.

Lawyers representing the group - who claim they are victims of abuse or their family members were unlawfully killed - will accuse the UK of a 'systemic' policy of abuse committed between 2003 and 2008.

Lawyers acting for the group will place a file of statements before two judges which details alleged use of 'stress positions' and  hooding as well as beating, sexual abuse and religious abuse of illegally detained prisoners.

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Some of the claims made in the statements are incredibly shocking with sexual depravity and insults to Islam featuring strongly.

In one case, a soldier is alleged to have masturbated over a prisoner while another is alleged to have committed sodomy with his finger. The High Court will also be told how female interrogators stripped and feigned seduction in exchange for information from prisoners.

Read more about it at: Mail Online
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Cremation of rape victim amid anger and grief in India

While there has been much hue and cry in India after a 23 years student was gang raped and tortured in a moving bus, nothing could save her even when she was flown to a Singapore hospital for treatment.

Her body was flown back to India and was hurriedly cremated amid anger and grief, early Sunday morning today. The funeral pyre was lit by her sobbing father at a crematorium in Dwarka after relatives and friends said their final prayers at a ritual at the house where the girl lived in Delhi.

In a bid to tame down the emotions, her body was received by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the early hours.

Read more about it at: The Indian Express
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Torkham Border reopened after Afghan Assuarance to probe ‘Torture’ of Pakistani labourers

The Afghanistan-Pakistan border at Torkham was closed after Pakistani labourers returning from Afghanistan shut the border gate and lamented that they were tortured by Afghan authorities and company that hired them.

Long lines of vehicles as the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan was closed [Photo: AFP]

29 labourers, who had traveled to Afghanistan for work were not paid their wages by the company that hired them and even allegedly tore their passports apart. The labourers also alleged that they had also been locked up in Afghanistan’s Pul-i-Charkhi prison where they were tortured by jail authorities.

Upon reaching the border Saturday, the labourers shut the gate which led to a halt in NATO supplies and other traffic.

However, the Torkham gate was reopened after negotiations between Pakistani and Afghan authorities resulted in an assurance from Afghanistan that action would be taken against those responsible for torturing the labourers.

Traffic and Nato supplies also resumed when the gate reopened after a closure lasting several hours.

In the meanwhile, Pakistan Foreign Ministry officially lodged complain by summoning the Afghan Charge d’ Affaires in the Pakistan Foreign Office.

via Dawn News
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Controversial French General Bigeard to be laid to rest two years after death

The remains of one of France's most decorated generals, Marcel Bigeard, will finally be interred on Tuesday, following bitter wrangling in the two years since his death.

Torture was "a necessary evil" claimed Marcel Bigeard

The funeral in the Indochina War Memorial at Frejus, in the south of France will be attended by his daughter and France's Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian.

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But opinions remain divided over General Bigeard, who is accused of overseeing torture during France's war with Algeria.

Previous attempts to find him a resting place have failed because of his controversial past.

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Rohingya Muslims "persecuted" after Myanmar crackdown

Myanmar security forces killed, raped or carried out mass arrests of Rohingya Muslims after deadly sectarian riots in the northeast in June, a rights group said on Wednesday, adding the authorities had done little to prevent the initial unrest.

Aid workers were blocked and in some cases arrested, and Rohingyas bore the brunt of a government crackdown in Rakhine state after a week of arson and machete attack by both ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingyas, New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report.

Based on 57 interviews with Rakhines and Rohingyas, the report seeks to shed light on a conflict that exposed deep-rooted communal animosity and put the spotlight on promises by the civilian government in office since 2011 to protect human rights after decades of brutal army rule.

Read more: Reuters

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