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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Yumna Rizvi
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the heavily redacted 500-page executive summary of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s landmark report, following its investigation into the CIA’s post-9/11 detention and interrogation program. Also known as the “Torture Report,” it is more than 6,000 pages long. Adam Driver starred in a film about it. But virtually no one has ever read it. It remains classified and shielded from public scrutiny and accountability.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Yumna Rizvi
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the heavily redacted 500-page executive summary of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s landmark report, following its investigation into the CIA’s post-9/11 detention and interrogation program. Also known as the “Torture Report,” it is more than 6,000 pages long. Adam Driver starred in a film about it. But virtually no one has ever read it. It remains classified and shielded from public scrutiny and accountability.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Daniel Byman |Yumna Rizvi |Sarah Yager
After Hamas-led Palestinian armed groups killed 1,139 people and took more than 250 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel’s UN ambassador called the attack “our 9/11.” The comparison he made is worth paying attention to. It wasn’t just the cruelty of the events or their magnitude. Israeli authorities invoked 9/11 to legitimize the dramatic show of force they intended in response, just as the United States responded over two decades ago with an invasion of Afghanistan and “shock and awe” in Iraq.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
balkans.aljazeera.net | Yumna Rizvi
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
msn.com | Yumna Rizvi
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Yumna Rizvi
I was in middle school when on April 28, 2004, CBS News first made public the haunting photos from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. I can’t remember exactly how I felt then except that it was an incredibly dark moment that rocked everyone. That has stuck with me to this day. Almost 20 years later, I found myself in court looking at the same shocking pictures of men whose faces are hidden beneath coarse hoods. But this time, the men tortured in these photos were not nameless and faceless.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Yumna Rizvi
Over the last few weeks, there has been a flurry of legislative proposals in connection with the president’s supplemental funding request from October which linked aid to Israel and Ukraine with heightened border security measures. These proposals, each with varying degrees of harm, are both startling and revealing — shedding light on how many members of the U.S. government view certain vulnerable communities reeling from violence or persecution.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
msn.com | Yumna Rizvi
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Yumna Rizvi
On January 16, the European Court of Human Rights issued an important ruling in the context of accountability for abuses perpetrated during the United States-led “war on terror”. In the case of Mustafa al-Hawsawi v Lithuania, the court found that the latter violated the European Convention on Human Rights due to its complicity in the CIA’s secret detention programme and its mistreatment of al-Hawsawi, a Saudi national.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Yumna Rizvi
On January 16, the European Court of Human Rights issued an important ruling in the context of accountability for abuses perpetrated during the United States-led “war on terror”. In the case of Mustafa al-Hawsawi v Lithuania, the court found that the latter violated the European Convention on Human Rights due to its complicity in the CIA’s secret detention programme and its mistreatment of al-Hawsawi, a Saudi national.
