Recently declassified documents on the Bush administration interrogation program describe several techniques used on detainees in US custody, some of which may have violated the United Nations Convention Against Torture, to which the United States is a signatory.
The “purpose” of the abdominal slap is defined in the documents as being “to instill fear and despair, to punish selective behavior and to instill humiliation or cause insult.”
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon, in an unusually direct...
ust before she boarded her flight at Logan airport on 20 November, she was arrested by...
