# torture - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
A UN committee against torture will hear of a need to address human rights abuses of the past, linked to violence during The Troubles.
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# torture - Sunday 10 March, 2013
Anti-war group Shannonwatch said Ireland’s record in UN peacekeeping has been “tarnished” by complicity in the CIA rendition programme.
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# torture - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Former police officer Gilberto Valle, 28, is accused of conspiracy to kidnap young women, including his wife, whom he would then torture, kill and eat.
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# torture - Saturday 16 February, 2013
Following the horrendous Magdalene revelations, can we continue to pretend to ourselves that abuses aren’t happening right here and now in our society and in our homes, asks Paula McGovern.
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# torture - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
The Department of Justice was responding to a report published today claiming Ireland facilitated the CIA’s rendition programme.
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The report indicates that flights involved in the transportation of some high profile detainees are suspected of having refueled at Shannon.
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Survivors are demanding an official State apology, as well as the return of lost wages and a proper compensation scheme.
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# torture - Monday 21 January, 2013
A report said torture included beatings, electric shock and being hung by the wrist from chains for long periods.
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# torture - Thursday 13 December, 2012
The plane used by the CIA landed in Shannon Airport on its way to Macadonia to pick the man up.
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# torture - Thursday 29 November, 2012
The former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj had been accused of murder and torture during the Kosovo war – but has been found not guilty.
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# torture - Thursday 20 September, 2012
Some 23 Americans were convicted in 2009 of involvement in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect.
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# torture - Thursday 6 September, 2012
Human Rights Watch are alleging that at least one opponent of Muammar Gaddafi was waterboarded during George Bush’s presidency.
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# torture - Saturday 1 September, 2012
Belgium’s Prime Minister has vowed to toughen parole rules following the release of the accomplice and ex-wife of paedophile serial killer Marc Dutroux.
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# torture - Saturday 11 August, 2012
Well-known US paediatrician Dr. Melvin Morse is accused of holding his daughter’s face under a running tap.
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# torture - Tuesday 31 July, 2012
Michelle Martin was jailed in 2004 for complicity in the imprisonment and death of her husband’s young victims.
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# torture - Thursday 5 July, 2012
Staff said they found evidence of electric shocks and beatings with bars, chains and cables.
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# torture - Tuesday 3 July, 2012
There are 27 torture centres in the country where people have been beaten and ill-treated – which points to a state policy of torture, Human Rights Watch has said.
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# torture - Tuesday 17 April, 2012
The Bahraini government insists it is on the road to reform – but Amnesty International has condemned its “piecemeal” efforts, accusing that state of continuing human rights violations including torture.
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# torture - Wednesday 21 March, 2012
Rebels were yesterday forced out of one eastern city by regime forces and artillery, as a group warned of serious human rights abuses.
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# torture - Tuesday 6 March, 2012
Chilling footage has emerged from Homs, showing patients tightly shackled to beds and bearing the marks of beatings.
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# torture - Monday 16 January, 2012
You may have seen the picture of Abdulhadi Al Khawaja – but do you know why a three-storey-high banner of him is hanging from a building in the centre of Dublin?
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# torture - Sunday 15 January, 2012
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
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# torture - Saturday 17 December, 2011
Young men and women were beaten and given electric shocks during the violent crackdown on anti-military demonstrations.
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# torture - Saturday 10 December, 2011
In tonight’s Fix: The latest on the EU agreement, tributes paid to mother and daughter crash victims, and possibly the best Christmas light display ever…
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The HSE’s handling of the case will be reviewed, after reports that health authorities had contact with the family for several years while abuse continued.
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# torture - Thursday 1 December, 2011
European Union foreign ministers today agreed a number of new economic sanctions against Syria which include limits on exports and support for Syrian government projects.
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# torture - Monday 28 November, 2011
UN Human Rights Council says its investigation into human rights abuse claims has found that at least 256 children were killed and that some were tortured to death.
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# torture - Wednesday 23 November, 2011
The king of Bahrain says the investigator charged with probing the government’s crackdown on civilian protests uncovered “real shortcomings” from state institutions.
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# torture - Tuesday 9 August, 2011
Former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faces lawsuits over claims he is personally responsible for the alleged torture of US citizens by US forces.
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# torture - Monday 8 August, 2011
An investigation has revealed claims of systematic torture, beatings and rape at one Zimbabwe’s diamond mines.
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# torture - Friday 5 August, 2011
A top secret document has been obtained by the Guardian detailing the UK’s policy on torture.
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# torture - Tuesday 31 May, 2011
In today’s Fix: Irish economy forecast to shrink this year; Aer Lingus pilots threaten industrial action; ‘sexy’ TDs; and the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Titanic.
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# torture - Tuesday 12 April, 2011
The Irish Human Rights Commission has presented a report to the UN Committee Against Torture condemning Ireland’s penal policy and detention conditions.
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# torture - Sunday 21 November, 2010
James Ross was reportedly kept in a cage and had an ear, two fingers and three toes chopped off over an unpaid debt.
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# torture - Tuesday 16 November, 2010
British government’s payout leads way for independent inquiry into claims of UK forces’ involvement in torture.
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Nine things you really need to know by 9am: Pressure mounts on Ireland to accept a bailout; David Drumm prepares to face his creditors, and … Free Cheese! Get the last of the free cheese!
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# torture - Tuesday 9 November, 2010
Bush says history will judge him a success – buts adds that he’ll be dead by then.
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Nine things you need to know by 9am: the former Mountjoy governor claims Larry Murphy was thrown to the wolves; George W Bush claims waterboarding “saved lives”, and Chris de Burgh sees red.
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