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		<title>Dick Cheney admits supporting waterboarding torture technique</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney admits being a supporter of the near-drowning torture technique called waterboarding, even if the US generally regards its use as a war crime. Robert Parry, author of a new book entitled Secrecy &#38; Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, writes in AlterNet, “Cheney was unrepentant about his support for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Success of Torture in Eliciting the Truth: may only be the perception of the torturer</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/success-of-torture-in-eliciting-the-truth-may-only-be-the-perception-of-the-torturer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=27249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The usual thinking about torture is that ‘pain will make the guilty confess.’ A whole new study coming out of Harvard University refutes that all the way around. These researchers are now saying that, contrary to popular belief, ‘the pain of torture can make even the innocent seem guilty.’ The research appears in the Journal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Hell on Earth</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/freedom-hell-on-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/freedom-hell-on-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[‘Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies 
2009’]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=27048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The social investigation was conducted by Freedom House. The organization’s Freedom in the World report entitled Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies 2009 enumerates the bottom 21 countries and territories with regards to repression of human freedom. Here are some of the worst of hell on earth: North Korea is the nadir [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different Versions of Lawlessness in Pakistan&#8217;s Swat valley</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are at least two mass graves that were discovered in Swat. Pakistani army says that ‘retreating militants killed their own injured co-fighters, to prevent them passing any information to the authorities.’ About ‘300 to 400 corpses of suspected Taliban have turned up in Swat, dumped on street corners, bridges or outside homes. Last month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian government’s strategy to crush the opposition: torture, murder, and rape</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/iranian-government%e2%80%99s-strategy-to-crush-the-opposition-torture-murder-and-rape/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/iranian-government%e2%80%99s-strategy-to-crush-the-opposition-torture-murder-and-rape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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results]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=24047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Based on testimonies and reports, at least 200 protesters have so far been killed in Iran, while 56 other people have disappeared during the protests in Tehran. Torture of political prisoners has also been rampant. One such case is 24-year old student Javadifar Amir who suffered fatal beatings. He was earlier ‘arrested in Tehran for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US military prison in Bagram, Afghanistan: needing review of detention conditions</title>
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		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/us-military-prison-in-bagram-afghanistan-needing-review-of-detention-conditions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An official report recommends for the U.S. military to review the conditions of detention in the U.S. prison at Bagram in Afghanistan so as to prevent abuses. Bagram prison, located in the air base of the same name, north of Kabul, houses some 600 detainees suspected of terrorism. Regarded as enemy combatants by the US, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea’s forced labor concentration camps revealed</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/north-korea%e2%80%99s-forced-labor-concentration-camps-revealed/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/north-korea%e2%80%99s-forced-labor-concentration-camps-revealed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[concentration camps forced labor camps]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=19586</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For more than 50 years, North Korea has been operating prison camps that are actually forced labor concentration camps. Government and political oppositionists are incarcerated and forced to do slave labor in these camps which hold an estimated 200,000 prisoners. Forced labor has been regarded as ‘an opportunity for redemption.’ North Korea&#8217;s government has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Bush is Haunted by the Ghosts of Tortures Past</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/why-bush-is-haunted-by-the-ghosts-of-tortures-past/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/why-bush-is-haunted-by-the-ghosts-of-tortures-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=14797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For starters, Bush insisted that torture was legal. He bought into the official legal reviews on it, hook, line, and sinker. If his administration’s legal counsels said that no international or domestic law can bind him to legal culpability in times of war, then the advice must have been sound. Everybody dealing with the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush administration&#8217;s ‘Torture 13’</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/bush-administrations-%e2%80%98torture-13%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/bush-administrations-%e2%80%98torture-13%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 23:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is now such a thing as the Bush administration&#8217;s Torture 13. They belong to the nefarious circle by virtue of authorizing torture to be systematically employed in the name of information gathering post-9/11 for the sake of intelligence. They carried out the strategy, as well as legally justified it. All these point to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico: country on court trial for femicide in Juárez</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/mexico-country-on-court-trial-for-femicide-in-juarez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 03:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The country of Mexico began its court trial before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) for alleged impunity, lack of investigation, and insufficient action on the murders of women committed in Ciudad Juárez over the last decade. The trial took place in Santiago de Chile at the end of April. The prosecution focuses on [...]]]></description>
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