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Date: 2008-06-18 (Wednesday)
In the USA, Physicians for Human Rights released a report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using waterboarding, beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices.

The group examined 11 men who had been freed without charges after being held for three years in the U.S. military detention center in Guantanamo, Cuba,






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