Johan Hari has a must-read article about forced kidnap, mutilation and rape of women in Ethiopia, as practiced for generations – and changing now.
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A five-year-old British boy, of Pakistani origin, has been kidnapped while in Pakistan:
Sahil Saeed from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was taken from the Punjab region this morning after the family was held captive and robbed by five men armed with guns and hand grenades.
Sahil had been staying with his grandmother in the city of Jhelum and was due to return home today, the British high commission in Islamabad said.
Sahil’s father, Raja Naqqash Saeed, described today how his family were beaten and kicked during a six-hour ordeal that began when men broke into the house last night.
“They took me into the separate room and they tortured me,” he told Sky News. “They said: ‘We will take your son and you will have to pay £100,000.’
“They took my son. They were fully loaded with guns and hand grenades. All Pakistan police know about this, and the British Council.”
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An Australian kidnap victim, who was held in Guantanamo Bay, wins the right to sue his government for its involvement in his torture by the US:
Mamdouh Habib says Australian officials were present at torture sessions he was subjected to while in detention.
A Federal Court said he was free to sue after rejecting Canberra’s claim that an Australian judge could not rule on the actions of foreign officials.
Mr Habib was released from Guantanamo without charge in 2005.
He is seeking compensation from the Australian government over its alleged involvement.
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Italy convicts former CIA agents in rendition trial.
An Italian judge sentenced 23 Americans to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric, in a symbolic condemnation of the CIA “rendition” flights used by the former U.S. government.
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The Independent interviews the NHS doctor who was held hostage and forced into marriage when she visited Bangladesh.
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Oh Barack, what about children the US kidnapped and holds indefinitely in its glorified torture dungeon?
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The Pakistani authorities say 79 kidnapped students and staff members of Cadet College Razmak were ‘recovered in a military operation’.
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A judge has ruled that the trial of an Egyptian imam who was the subject of a CIA ‘rendition’ (kidnapping) in Milan will continue.
Not surprisingly, the US is not going to extradite the 26 spies accused in the case.
Interestingly, an Indian-born US citizen, Sabrina De Sousa, named as one of the kidnappers, is launching a case of her own against the State Department, saying she should be given diplomatic immunity.
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A video has been released by ‘Taliban militants’ showing the owner of a ‘jihadi’ website (thought to be a front for the CIA) pleading for her life.
