Long Beach residents’ recollections of Cambodian horror will be heard
- April 30, 2011
A year-and-a-half ago when refugee survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime gathered in Long Beach to fill out forms about atrocities they witnessed in the mid-’70 s in Cambodia, they had no idea whether it would make a difference. On Saturday, many of them got their answer.
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- April 21, 2011
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New York Court to Hear Case Against Psychologist Accused of Torture in Guantánamo Interrogations
- April 6, 2011
The Obama administration has announced that key suspects in the 9/11 attacks will be tried by military commissions at the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay—not in U.S. civilian court. There will, however, be one Guantánamo case tried in New York. Today the New York State Supreme Court will hear the case against Dr. John Leso, a psychologist accused of participating in torture during interrogation of detainees in Guantánamo. The case was brought on behalf of Dr. Steven Reisner, who is at the center of a growing group of medical professionals campaigning against the participation of psychologists in the U.S. government’s interrogation programs.
Guantánamo and the Taint of Torture
- April 6, 2011
On the same day President Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign, his attorney general, Eric Holder, announced that key suspects in the 9/11 attacks would be tried not in federal court, but through controversial military commissions at Guantánamo. Holder blamed members of Congress, who, he said, “have intervened and imposed restrictions blocking the administration from bringing any Guantánamo detainees to trial in the United States.” Nevertheless, one Guantánamo case will be tried in New York.
Court Shrinks From Probe of Gitmo Psychologist
- April 6, 2011
MANHATTAN (CN) – New York State Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla said that she sympathized with, but is unlikely to grant, a licensed psychologist’s petition to compel an investigation into another psychologist’s alleged human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay.
NY Judge Queries Sides in Gitmo Psychologist Case
- April 6, 2011
NEW YORK — A push to shed light on psychologists’ role in terror suspect interrogations got a rare court airing Wednesday, as a judge told human rights advocates she shared their “sensibility” but wasn’t sure they had legal grounds to force a state investigation.
Gitmo ‘Torture’ Doc now in the Hot Seat
- April 5, 2011
NEW YORK–The practices of a New York-licensed psychologist will be reviewed by a state Supreme Court judge today, after he was accused of creating U.S. interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay that some decry as torture.
Massacre Suspect Wanted in Spain
- April 4, 2011
A Spanish judge has issued an international arrest warrant seeking the extradition of a former Guatemalan soldier suspected of involvement in a brutal 1982 massacre during Guatemala’s civil war, a court official said Monday.