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• Blair promises Iraq 'abuse' probe - Tony Blair has said claims of abuse by soldiers "will be investigated" after images that appeared to show UK troops beating Iraqi youths were published. The News of the World has published pictures from a video the newspaper says was shot in southern Iraq in 2004.

• The reality of Britain's reliance on torture: Torture means the woman who was raped with a broken bottle, and died after 10 days of agony - The Government has been arguing before the House of Lords for the right to act on intelligence obtained by torture abroad. It wants to be able to use such material to detain people without trial in the UK, and as evidence in the courts. Key to its case is a statement to the Law Lords by the head of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller. In effect she argues that torture works. It foiled the famous ricin plot. 

• 'I Treated People Who Had Their Skin Melted': by Dahr Jamail - Abu Sabah knew he had witnessed something unusual. Sitting in November last year in a refugee camp in the grounds of Baghdad University, set up for the families who fled or were driven from Fallujah, this resident of the city's Jolan district told me how he had witnessed some of the battle's heaviest fighting. "They used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud," he said. He had seen "pieces of these bombs explode into large fires that continued to burn on the skin even after people dumped water on the burns".

• Revealed: victims of UK's cold war torture camp - Photographs of victims of a secret torture programme operated by British authorities during the early days of the cold war are published for the first time today after being concealed for almost 60 years. The pictures show men who had suffered months of starvation, sleep deprivation, beatings and extreme cold at one of a number of interrogation centres run by the War Office in postwar Germany.

• Britain tortured suspects in a secret German jail: Post World War II atrocities have now come to light, writes Ian Cobain, in London - DESPITE the six years of bitter World War II fighting that lay behind him, James Morgan-Jones, a major in Britain's Royal Artillery, could not have been more specific about the spectacle in front of him. "It was one of the most disgusting sights of my life," he reported in 1947.

• Revealed: UK wartime torture camp - The British government operated a secret torture centre during the second world war to extract information and confessions from German prisoners, according to official papers which have been unearthed by the Guardian. More than 3,000 prisoners passed through the centre, where many were systematically beaten, deprived of sleep, forced to stand still for more than 24 hours at a time and threatened with execution or unnecessary surgery.

• Powell's ex-aide speaks of torture 'cabal' - A former top official in the Bush administration is making new allegations that Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved the use of torture against al-Qaeda suspects and other foreign-held prisoners. "They began to authorize procedures in the armed forces that led to, in my view, what we've seen," said Col. Larry Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to former secretary of state Colin Powell.

• Tiananmen protester's 13 years of torment in psychiatric prison - One of China's longest serving dissident prisoners has been freed and flown to the West, allowing a rare insight into life inside its notorious psychiatric jail system. Wang Wanxing, 56, spent 13 years in the Beijing Ankang hospital for the criminally insane after staging a one-man demonstration in Tiananmen Square. He was detained on a ward containing violent criminals and forced to watch electric shock treatment being performed on fellow inmates.

• US CIA Plane Spirits Terror Suspects to Torturing Countries: Report - A US jet registered to a ghost company whisks terror suspects to countries that use torture, The Washington Post reported, based on its own investigation. The Gulfstream V turbojet has been seen at US military bases around the world, often loading up hooded and shackled suspects and delivering them to countries known to use torture, a process the CIA calls "rendition," the Washington daily said. The Post investigated the ownership of the jet, which has been spotted in Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan and which carries the tail number N379P, according to the newspaper.

• US Now 'Crating' Prisoners In Dog-Sized Cages: Flown On C-130s To Prisons In Eastern Europe Interrogated by US Personnel, Contractors/Ex-KGB, Ex-Stasi - U.S. "crating" prisoners and flying them around Eastern Europe in C-130 prison planes. Although The Washington Post failed to report on the details of CIA (now Pentagon-run) "black" interrogation sites in eastern Europe, WMR is able to report on the particulars of the covert operation. According to a well-placed intelligence source who served in eastern Europe, prisoners from Iraq and elsewhere have been flown from airport to airport in eastern Europe on board C-130 planes. Placed in what were described as "dog-sized" cages, the covert operation became fully operational after the disclosures of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, Baghdad and Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq.

• MI6 and CIA 'sent student to Morocco to be tortured': An Ethiopian claims that his confession to al-Qaeda bomb plot was signed after beatings, reports David Rose in New York - An Ethiopian student who lived in London claims that he was brutally tortured with the involvement of British and US intelligence agencies. Binyam Mohammed, 27, says he spent nearly three years in the CIA's network of 'black sites'. In Morocco he claims he underwent the strappado torture of being hung for hours from his wrists, and scalpel cuts to his chest and penis and that a CIA officer was a regular interrogator.

• Torture flights: our role in US brutality shames Britain - IF and when the so-called war on terror ever ends, our grandchildren or our great-grandchildren may well look back in disbelief and wonder how it could have been that, at the turn of the 21st century, the two nations that waged a global conflict under the banner of democracy could have so blatantly flouted that principle. The “extraordinary renditions” programme, which breaches every law on international human rights, sees the United States target suspected terrorists anywhere in the world, kidnap them, drug them, cuff and blindfold them, bundle them on to a secret CIA jet and whisk them off to a “friendly” nation such as Egypt, Uzbekistan or Morocco, where “friendly” secret policemen can torture, rape and murder them.

• 'Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers - A "trophy" video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal. The video has sparked concern that private security companies, which are not subject to any form of regulation either in Britain or in Iraq, could be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Iraqis. The video, which first appeared on a website that has been linked unofficially to Aegis Defence Services, contained four separate clips, in which security guards open fire with automatic rifles at civilian cars. All of the shooting incidents apparently took place on "route Irish", a road that links the airport to Baghdad.

• An Innocent Man in the Hell of Guantánamo - He's forgotten nothing of the pain, the humiliation, the solitude. American investigators took a year to clear him. And another year to free him. Beyond the revolting injustice to which he was victim, former journalist Bader Zaman denounces the arbitrariness of American detention centers. He suffers from hypermnesia. It's twelve months since Bader Zaman was released from Guantánamo prison, but he remembers every detail of his detention. Not only the pain, the humiliation, the solitude, but also little things: dogs' breath, the scrape of the razor against his eyebrows, the accent of the creep who cried out over the megaphone to the other soldiers: "Don't show any sympathy for the terrorists!" He can't forget anything.

• CIA chief sacked for opposing torture - The CIA’s top counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as “water boarding”, intelligence sources have claimed. Robert Grenier, head of the CIA counter-terrorism centre, was relieved of his post after a year in the job. One intelligence official said he was “not quite as aggressive as he might have been” in pursuing Al-Qaeda leaders and networks.

• Guantanamo: Sex torture claims - Startling new allegations have emerged of the sexual humiliation, beating and torture of a Bahraini detainee by United States interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba, the Bahraini newspaper Gulf Daily News reported on Thursday. Juma Mohammed al-Dossary claims he was stripped naked, then humiliated by a female interrogator, who squatted nude over him and smeared him with her menstrual blood, the paper said. He alleges that on a later occasion he was forced to watch a naked man and woman having sex and was then offered sex with the woman if he co-operated during questioning.

• CIA Accused of Using Airport in Mallorca: Spanish Court Gets Report Accusing CIA Used Airport on Mediterranean Island to Transfer Suspects - The National Court has received a prosecutor's report on allegations that the CIA used an airport on the Spanish island of Mallorca for a program of covert transfers of terror suspects, court officials said Monday.

• US suspects 'face torture overseas' - It is no secret that the US military operates detention centres around the world for the interrogation of terror suspects. The treatment of prisoners in these places - including Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib in Iraq - has come in for intense scrutiny and evidence of human rights violations has been widely reported. But less well-documented is the process by which terror suspects are sent by the United States for interrogation by security officials in other countries.

• “They blinded me” - Hypocrisy and a disregard for basic human rights and international laws continue to mark the American President’s so-called “war on terror". Bellow are details of one of the most horrific incidents that took place at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where American soldiers tortured and abused prisoners, whom they labeled enemy-combatants. Omar Deghayes is a British resident who has been tortured by U.S. guards at Guantanamo Bay, suffering violent sexual assaults, near drowning and an attack in which he was blinded.

• President Authorized Abu Ghraib Torture, FBI Email Says - Among a new batch of documents rights groups have forced the gov't to release, a Bureau communication refers to a presidential Executive Order endorsing some forms of torture witnessed at Iraq prison. Repeated references in an internal FBI email suggest that the president issued a special order to permit some of the more objectionable torture techniques used at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prison facilities around Iraq. The email was among a new batch of FBI documents revealed by civil rights advocates on Monday. Other documents describe the initiation of investigations into alleged incidents of torture and rape at detention facilities in Iraq.

• Jail inmate alleges police torture - Shows injury marks in court of Chief Judicial Magistrate; medical examination ordered. ANOTHER case of alleged police high-handedness came out in the open when a Burail Jail inmate, Rajesh Kumar, complained of being tortured by the jail officials. Raising allegations against the jail officials, Rajesh Kumar, who was produced in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), showed his injury marks in the court.

• PBS: Guantanamo Gen. balked at torture - Brig. Gen. Rick Baccus was removed as Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, commander in 2002 for refusing to use tougher interrogation tactics, a PBS documentary suggests.

• Ringworm and Radiation - On August 14, at 9 PM, Israel's Channel Ten television screened a documentary film which exposes the ugliest secret of Israel's Labor party founders: the deliberate mass radiation poisoning of nearly all Sephardi youths of a generation.

• Former Abu Ghraib General: Torture Is Continuing; Order Came From Very Top - General says she was deliberately kept out of the loop and scapegoated to protect higher ups.

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