CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11, taskforce finds
Doctors were asked to torture detainees for intelligence gathering, and unethical practices continue, review concludes
Doctors and psychologists working for the US military violated the ethical codes of their profession under instruction from the defence department and the CIA to become involved in the torture and degrading treatment of suspected terrorists, an investigation has concluded.
The report of the Taskforce on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centres concludes that after 9/11, health professionals working with the military and intelligence services "designed and participated in cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and torture of detainees".
Medical professionals were in effect told that their ethical mantra "first do no harm" did not apply, because they were not treating people who were ill.
As Mohamed Morsi goes to trial, General Sisi should remember: Egypt is a dangerous place to rule
The erstwhile President appears in court at a tense time even by Egypt's standards
It’s not every day you get to queue for a ticket to the trial of Egypt’s first elected president. But there was Mr Fouad sitting in the government press centre yesterday – exactly where I first saw him 37 years ago – happily telling us all to come back after five o’clock, as if he was arranging a junket up the Nile outside his office, rather than a front-row seat for the trial of former President Mohamed Morsi. No one had even told us where he is due to make his starring appearance today, nor whether he will appear in person at all.
Mr Morsi is to stand trial, along with 14 fellow Muslim Brotherhood members, for inciting people “to commit crimes of deliberate and premeditated murder” and “the use of violence, thuggery, coercion, possession of firearms, ammunition… and unlawfully arresting, detaining and torturing peaceful demonstrators.”
These incredible charges refer to violence outside the presidential palace in December when five civilians were killed – but they could just as well have been made against the cops and their ‘baltagi’ thugs who ran amok among the Brotherhood on a far bigger scale in August, killing more than 600 men, women and children. Thirty-six men were fried alive in a burning police truck on their way to prison.
Violence fears after Golden Dawn shootings in Athens
The man who survived attack believed to have come face to face with assailants
Helena Smith
Greek counter-terrorism experts are hoping that a man who survived a drive-by shooting at a branch of the far-right Golden Dawn party in Athens will help shed light on the assailants’ identity.
As supporters of the extremist group held a memorial event on the spot where two of its members were shot dead on Friday, there was growing speculation yesterday that far-left radicals, seeking revenge for the murder of an anti-fascist musician, were behind the attack.
The man, who survived by diving into a building, is believed to have come face to face with the assassins.
South African mob burns, stones five to death in vigilante riot
JOHANNESBURG |
(Reuters) - Five alleged criminals including a witch doctor were killed by an enraged South African mob in a township on Sunday, police said, the latest act of vigilantism in a country plagued with high rates of violent crime.
The killings in the township of Khutsong follow other flare-ups in the area known as the West Rand, a sprawling group of communities west of Johannesburg that has fallen on hard times as gold mines have closed.
Another township in the area, Bekkersdal, has been the scene of periodic riots the past few weeks by residents angry at the failure of the local government to provide services such as garbage collection, an ominous sign for the ruling African National Congress ahead of general elections next year.
Is Brazil feeding the world as Brazilians go hungry?
Brazil is the world’s top exporter of soy and poultry, much of headed to China to feed its growing middle class. But some say Brazil is ignoring hunger at home.
What do soccer stars and soybeans have in common? Brazil is incredibly good at producing and exporting both.
But while the soccer stars will come home to play for Brazil in the 2014 World Cup, the country's food exports are feeding the world as millions of Brazilians themselves go hungry, according to agriculture researchers and food scholars.
The competing interests between export demand and domestic need were underscored in an Oct. 16 report from the Global Harvest Initiative (GHI), a private advocacy group comprised of members DuPont, Elanco, IBM, John Deere, and Monsanto.
Brazil, according to the report, has increased its agricultural output by 120 percent over the past 20 years and is an example in the “success” of liberalizing trade and adapting private sector technologies.
4 November 2013 Last updated at 00:10 GMT
South Korea President Park: 'No purpose' to Japan talks
South Korea's president has highlighted a deep rift with Japan, as the region struggles to rein in North Korea's growing nuclear capability.
President Park Geun-hye told the BBC she saw no point in a summit with the Japanese leader unless the country apologised for war-time "wrongdoings".
Concern over regional security has grown in the past year, following North Korea's third nuclear test in February.
Ms Park said nations had to break the "vicious cycle" of Pyongyang's actions.
She said her country would take "firm and unremitting action" in response to any military provocation from North Korea.
The South Korean president was speaking to the BBC ahead of a visit to the UK, which begins this week.
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