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The Obama administration said, ‘We won’t torture anyone. We will stop torture.’ But he ensured that anybody who was involved in the torture wouldn’t be prosecuted, and that’s why now today you have a president who feels that it is fine to endorse war crimes because he knows there is no precedent for prosecution for saying this. So whichever administration, I think torture is as American as apple pie.
Former Guantánamo prisoner and British-Pakistani author Moazzam Begg, who survived torture in U.S. hands and witnessed the killing of his fellow detainees. See more: Former Gitmo Prisoner Moazzam Begg Explains How Torture & U.S.-Run Prisons Helped Give Birth to ISIS
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It annoys me when people say, ‘Oh, the Iraq War, it was a geostrategic error. It was a colossal blunder. It was a failure.’ No, it was a crime. It was in defiance of international law, and it was defined over the last 15 years by war crimes, by widespread torture, by human rights abuses, by massacres.
Journalist Mehdi Hasan, speaking on Democracy Now! today about the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. See the interview: 15 Years After Invasion of Iraq, Amnesia & Distortion Obscure U.S. Record of War Crimes & Torture
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By a nearly unanimous vote, the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives has voted to adopt a new policy barring psychologists from participating in national security interrogations. The resolution puts the APA on the side of...

By a nearly unanimous vote, the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives has voted to adopt a new policy barring psychologists from participating in national security interrogations. The resolution puts the APA on the side of international law by barring psychologists from working at Guantánamo, CIA black sites and other settings deemed illegal under the Geneva Conventions or the U.N. Convention Against Torture, unless they’re working directly for detainees or independent third parties defending human rights. Tune in to Democracy Now! for our special report from the APA’s annual meeting.

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“Right now, there are psychologists at Guantánamo Bay, and they’re not only doing therapy.”

- Steven Reisner, a founding member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, speaking last night at a town hall meeting, where the American Psychological Association is holding its annual convention. Watch today’s Democracy Now! special report.

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For years the government classified details about how former Baltimore resident Majid Khan was tortured at a CIA black site before he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay. Now details are finally coming to light that show he was waterboarded and...

For years the government classified details about how former Baltimore resident Majid Khan was tortured at a CIA black site before he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay. Now details are finally coming to light that show he was waterboarded and subjected to forced rectal feeding, which his lawyers describe as a form of rape. Democracy Now! talks to Khan’s attorney about his client’s torture. Tune in at democracynow.org.

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I wished they had killed me.
Majid Khan, former Baltimore resident and current Guantanamo detainee. Khan was waterboarded, raped, hung on a wooden beam for days on end, and spent much of 2003 in total darkness when he was held at a CIA blacksite. Tune in to Democracy Now! to hear his attorney discuss the case.
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It was something you couldn’t even conjure up in a horror movie, because you don’t think Chicago police officers would stoop this low in trying to obtain a confession. It didn’t matter whether or not I was guilty or innocent. In their minds, any time they pick a black man up he’s guilty.
Darrell Cannon, a former prisoner who spent more than 20 years behind bars after being tortured into confessing to a crime he didn’t commit. Earlier this month, the Chicago City Council approved a $5.5 million reparations fund for victims of police torture. More than 200 people, most of them African-American, were tortured under the reign of Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge from 1972 to 1991. Watch our interview with Darrell Cannon on Democracy Now! today.
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