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Between the induced labor and the COVID-19 treatment protocols that ultimately ended in her death on Dec. 1, 2021, 33-year-old Christy Cresto was only allowed by hospital staff to hold her baby for 10 minutes before he was taken to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). When she was admitted into a hospital in Pennsylvania on Oct. 9, 2021, she was 36 weeks pregnant and due Nov. 16; however, staff performed an ultrasound and decided she was at 38 weeks, with the baby at 9 pounds and 8 ounces. “This would become the first of many lies from the hospital...

We reported last month when U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth held D.C. jail officials in contempt of court for denying the rights of one of the Jan. 6 defendants, because officials refused to turn over medical records so that the defendant could get proper treatment for a broken hand.Lamberth asked for an investigation into the conditions the detainees were experiencing at the D.C jail. U.S. Marshals then conducted a surprise inspection last month.The report from that inspection is now in and according to the judge, it is not good. As a consequence, Lamberth has now ordered the release of...

Brutal She calls it “cultural homelessness,” and her theory is that Muslims who come to the United States don’t feel like they’re accepted by their new country - thus prompting them to commit terror attacks like the one that occured at Ohio State University on Monday. It’s kind of a weird theory considering that she then goes on to claim American “right-wing extremists” commit more terrorist attacks than radical Islamists. Are they culturally homeless? Anyway, I suppose you have to give Georgetown Professor Engy Abdelkader credit for bringing this premise to Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News. You go on...

Nigerian anger over China deaths Nigeria has close ties with China and trade between the countries is booming Nigeria MPs have asked the government to investigate the status of Chinese residents in the country, saying some may be staying there illegally. The demand follows allegations that Nigerians in China, especially those in jail, are being mistreated. The MPs asked the government to reject a request by the Chinese authorities to cremate the bodies of 30 Nigerians who have died in Chinese jails. There are an estimated 700 Nigerians currently in prison in China. The BBC's Chris Ewokor in Abuja says...

An unexpectedly light sentence for an Army interrogator who once faced life in prison for the death of an Iraqi general could tarnish the government and hurt human-rights efforts around the globe, critics said. Prosecutors said during Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr.'s court-martial that his interrogation of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush "could fairly be described as torture" and had stained the military's reputation. During the trial, testimony showed he stuffed Mowhoush in a sleeping bag and straddled his chest. If the tables were turned and an American general had suffered the same fate from interrogators in an enemy's...

CPJ alarmed by series of violent attacks on journalists covering political dispute in village (Oct. 13, 2005) (CPJ/IFEX) - The following is an 11 October 2005 CPJ press release: (boxun.com) New York, October 11, 2005 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a series of violent attacks on journalists trying to cover the ongoing tensions between local authorities and residents in the village of Taishi in the southern Guangdong province. On Friday, two journalists, South China Morning Post reporter Leu Siew Ying and Radio France Internationale reporter Abel Segretin were struck and threatened by unidentified men and then...

Please be patient while reading this ! The correspondents for Boxun are dissident Chinese who risk beatings and imprisonment when they smuggle stories like this out on the Internet.(Yahoo has ratted several of them out.) Evidently, a British reporter named Benjamin, accompanied by an honest People's Representative, was investigating corruption and misuse of power in a small village. Both men were set upon and beaten:the representative being left in the road for dead.Benjamin was set free-with help of UK embassy. The report begins with a followup. Visit these folks when you can, and get a first-hand look at "The People's...

Senators from both sides of the aisle competed on Monday to extol the humane treatment of detainees whom they said they saw on a weekend trip to the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. All said they opposed closing the center. "I feel very good" about the detainees' treatment, Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, said. That feeling was also expressed by another Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska. On Monday, Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, said he learned while visiting Guantánamo that some detainees "even have air-conditioning and semiprivate showers." Another Republican, Senator Michael D. Crapo of Idaho, said...

The Pentagon has acknowledged five instances in which guards or interrogators at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, handled the Koran in such a way as to cause offense to some who believe it is the revealed word of Allah. Three are said to have been three deliberate and two unintentional. Amnesty International has put the United States high on the list of countries it says are guilty of prisoner and human rights abuses because of the way suspected terrorists are treated. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Richard Myers, rebutted the notion of inappropriate treatment...

STORIES ABOUT spat-upon Vietnam veterans are like mercury: Smash one and six more appear. It's hard to say where they come from. For a book I wrote in 1998 I looked back to the time when the spit was supposedly flying, the late 1960s and early 1970s. I found nothing. No news reports or even claims that someone was being spat on. What I did find is that around 1980, scores of Vietnam-generation men were saying they were greeted by spitters when they came home from Vietnam. There is an element of urban legend in the stories in that their...

Just read something on the CNN site: The New York Times is about to release a story alleging "routine mis-treatment" of detainees at Guantanamo: claiming they are stripped,herded into freezingly cold air conditioned cells,then subjected to strobe lights and ear-shattering rock music. They are quoting "un-named sources,formerly attached to the facility." Guess the gurus at the Times,who,to no one's surprise,have endorsed Kerry ( Phew ! How's THAT for a run-on sentence !),want to imitate the Washington Post and spring an "October surprise" on the Administration. Considering the effect of the Abu Ghraib disclosures,I would suggest we all skip over the...

In other threads, I've made the comment that McCain should have his legs broken again so he would better remember what torture is. And that the politicians and mindless american myrmidons should be ashamed for referring to prisoner mistreatment as atrocities or torture while they ignore real examples across the world. They should be equally ashamed of the disproportional and misleading coverage which speculates the worst and accuses the soldiers and military of actions which are not shown in the pohotos. The extensive coverage is a hysteria unmatched by minor coverage of real atrocities committed against americans and arabs by...

MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher May 11, 2004 With news coming out of Baghdad about Iraqi prisoner abuse by American soldiers and the accompanying outrage, we see that unlike the Left where leadership exists in a vacuum, positive results were taken and accomplished in the wake of this unacceptable conduct. What I'm about to say is going to outrage many and surely offend more than a few. So what. The fact that this conduct occurred is not unacceptable in and of itself; what makes this conduct unacceptable is that it was done solely for the...

I have been reading a lot of back and forth on various threads regarding the alleged mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners. Most of it is little more than emotional ranting, with very little factual material offered to back it up. I thought it would be useful to start a thread for the purpose of collecting, and discussing, the actual facts related to these claims, for the purpose of sorting out: --What has been proven or admitted; --What has been plausibly alleged but not proven; --What spurious claims have been positively debunked. It is my hope that posters will try to confine...

Report on Abuse Faults 2 Officers in Intelligence An internal Army investigation has found a virtual collapse of the command structure in a prison outside Baghdad where American enlisted personnel are accused of committing acts of abuse and humiliation against Iraqi detainees. A report on the investigation said midlevel military intelligence officers were allowed to skirt the normal chain of command to issue questionable orders to enlisted personnel from the reserve military police unit handling guard duty there. The Army has already begun one investigation into the abuse allegations. Maj. Gen. George R. Fay, the incoming deputy commander of Army...

PRISONERS MISTREATED - Film at 11 In January,an American soldier,who had taken part in the mistreatment of Iraqi POW's,decided enough was enough,and reported the situation to his superiors. A horrified military launched an immediate investigation,suspended all identifiable culprits,and drew up charges. Enter CBS,which did not merely see a problem the Army had addressed and solved: It saw an opportunity ! Here was a new My Lai incident ! Here was an opportunity to re-build its sagging ratings.Here was an opportunity to sensationalize the conduct of a few,and, by so doing,to smear the Bush administration,Operation Iraqi Freedom,and the men and...

HUMAN RIGHTS organisations expressed increasing concern yesterday over the treatment of the captured Iraqis on the American “deck-of-cards” list of most-wanted regime members. Their intervention came after the detention of three more senior officials on Wednesday, including the former chief of military intelligence and the former head of the country’s military air defences. Their arrests brought the total to 11, but the Bush Administration is refusing to disclose where or in what conditions they are being held. The whereabouts of Abu Abbas, the Palestinian behind the 1985 hijacking of the cruise liner Achille Lauro, who was arrested by US special...

See this thread for Iraqi foreign minister's comments regarding treatment of captured Americans.

Nation: Mistreatment followed female inmate's rape, indictment says NEW YORK (April 14, 2002 5:50 p.m. EDT) - When the 23-year-old woman was jailed for allegedly smuggling the drug Ecstasy, she thought her life could sink no further. Then she encountered a jail guard who she says cornered her inside her cell and raped her. Afterward, she says, he added to the humiliation by making her clean his office. A federal indictment charges Lt. Randy Denjen, 38, with sexually assaulting the inmate and then lying to investigators. But the woman's lawyer says the violation went further. In court papers, attorney Jan...