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AMERICA'S top military officer, General Richard Myers, has slammed as "absolutely irresponsible" a report by Amnesty International describing the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a "gulag". In a report released last week, the international rights group called the Guantanamo prison camp, where hundreds of foreign terror suspects are held indefinitely, the "gulag of our times", referring to the notorious prison camps of the Soviet Union. Asked to respond to that charge on American TV's Fox News Sunday, Gen Myers replied: "I think it's absolutely irresponsible. It is ... essentially a model facility." The outgoing chairman of the...

Former Iraqi prisoners of war have accused British and American troops of torturing them in custody, blindfolding them before kicking and beating them with weapons for long periods. Investigators for the human rights group Amnesty International said statements taken from 20 former detainees even included one claim, made by a Saudi man, that he had been subjected to electric shocks by his US captors. "In one case we are talking about electric shocks being used against a man ... [and] if you keep beating somebody for the whole night and somebody is bleeding and you are breaking teeth, it is...

"Amina Lawal is the Nigerian woman who was condemned to death by stoning for adultery, in accordance with Sharia Law. Death is inflicted by burying the victim in sand up to his/her neck, and then killing the victim by hurling stones at his/her head. The details of the case are given below. The object of this post is to call upon readers to sign a petition to Nigeria's president, requesting that the death sentence be overturned. The petition is available on several sites, such as this one in Spanish and this site in English. The foregoing sites organizing the petition...