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Kim Jong Il has come up with a new way to bring cold hard cash into his isolated country: export North Korean workers to slave away in the Siberian forest.
Via vice.com
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Atencio, 44, was found unresponsive in a jail cell at Fourth Avenue on Friday morning, following an altercation with detention officers that involved Tasing. He was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, where he was kept alive on life-support machines.
Via blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com
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Joshua Phillips is the author of “None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture,” a harrowing book about the torture of prisoners in Iraq and the deep psychological scars it left on the members of one battalion who dispensed pain to their victims.
Via truth-out.org
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Bahrain, under pressure to improve its right record to secure a purchase of U.S. arms, said on Tuesday it freed on bail a Shi’ite female blogger arrested last week and would reinstate state employees suspended following pro-democracy protests.
Via reuters.com
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An investigation into the detention and torture of Syrian civilians, featuring shocking video evidence of men, women and children being subjected to beatings, whippings and more elaborate torture.
Via channel4.com
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The Obama administration is resisting calls for it to explain its rules for the drone attacks that have killed as many as 2,250 people in Pakistan in the past three years.
Via washingtonpost.com
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Security forces accused of targeting journalists trying to expose state violence in Egypt, SCAF statements deliberately stir mistrust and misinformation.
Via english.ahram.org.eg
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Tawakkol Karman says demonstrations will continue until all protester demands and goals are reached…
Via voanews.com
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Tonight, at 11.10 pm GMT, Channel 4 is showing a powerful documentary, “Syria’s Torture Machine,” by Jonathan Miller, the foreign affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News, featuring harrowing footage, and further evidence of the lengths to which the regime is prepared to go to cling onto power, The Channel 4 News page about the programme is here, and below is a cross-post of Miller’s informative and deeply disturbing article for the Observer last week about his recent visit to Syria, his findings, and the findings of those who analysed the videos featured in the film to verify their accuracy.
Via andyworthington.co.uk
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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly has approved a resolution denouncing serious human rights violations in Iran ranging from flogging and amputations to frequent use of the death penalty.
Via washingtonpost.com
