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Tasered UCLA Student Plans Lawsuit

Staff / Truthdig Nov 18, 2006 The UCLA senior hired a high-profile civil rights lawyer who is accusing campus police of "brutal excessive force," as well as false arrest. Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, is of Iranian descent but U.S.-born, and had refused the officers' request to see his campus ID because he thought they were racially profiling him. Good for him. UCLA's reputation for a decade hangs in the balance of how it responds to this case. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

UCLA Cops Taser Cuffed Student

Staff / Truthdig Nov 17, 2006 University police officers repeatedly stunned a handcuffed UCLA student with a Taser in a library after he could not produce an identification card. The video is sickening. The university is promising an investigation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

YouTube Video Prompts FBI Probe of LAPD

Staff / Truthdig Nov 14, 2006 The FBI has launched a police brutality investigation of the LAPD after a video surfaced on YouTube of a police officer repeatedly punching a suspected gang member in the face. Read about it, and watch the video. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

FOX News Correspondent Gets Waterboarded

Staff / Truthdig Nov 7, 2006 The reporter voluntarily submitted to the interrogation technique to report on its effects. Watch it Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Dixie Chicks Ad NBC Won’t Run

Staff / Truthdig Oct 27, 2006 NBC has told the Dixie Chicks it won't run an ad for their documentary because in it they criticize President Bush. Watch it. The irony: The Dixie Chicks are being silenced in trying to advertise a film about how they were silenced. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cheney Appears to Confirm Waterboarding Use

Staff / Truthdig Oct 26, 2006 In an interview with a conservative radio talk show host, the vice president apparently confirmed that U.S. interrogators waterboarded Al Qaeda suspects. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Long and Winding Road

Staff / Truthdig Oct 25, 2006 In "The Road to Guantanamo," directors Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross meld documentary and re-creation to tell the story of three British citizens who were held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay for two years without charge. Earlier: Read a Truthdig article on the film Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Red Cross Condemns Torture Bill

Staff / Truthdig Oct 20, 2006 The International Committee of the Red Cross will contact the White House to address concerns over U.S. torture policy's compliance with the Geneva Conventions. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Signs Torture Bill

Staff / Truthdig Oct 17, 2006 It's official. We just got medieval. The Associated Press calls it "tough interrogation." We call it the indefinite-detainment, unyielding-torture, habeas-corpus-suspending, mortgage America's bedrock principles upon the altar of anti-terrorism bill. But different strokes for different folks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Torture of an American, by Americans

Staff / Truthdig Oct 12, 2006 Read the never-before-surfaced details of alleged 'Dirty Bomber' Jose Padilla here. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Administration Seeks to Protect ?Interrogation? Methods

Staff / Truthdig Sep 8, 2006 Legislation put forward by the Bush administration this week would legalize the same torture techniques recently banned by the Army. By selectively interpreting the Geneva Conventions, the legislation would allow CIA operatives and even the Army, should it decide to revert to previous rules, to conduct interrogations using unsavory methods. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Army Finally Bans Torture

Staff / Truthdig Sep 6, 2006 Yielding to pressure from humanitarian groups, Congress and the Supreme Court, the U.S. Army will release a new field manual that affords all detainees protection from torture under the Geneva Convention. The new document will ban several ?interrogation? methods that have drawn criticism, including simulated drowning and the use of dogs to terrorize detainees. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )