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The Business of Torture
The European Court of Human Rights agreed yesterday - more than two years after the applications have been filed - to hear six cases filed by Chechens against Russia. The claimants accuse the Russian military of torture and indiscriminate killings. The Court has ruled in the past against the Russian Federation and awarded assorted plaintiffs thousands of euros per case in compensation.
As awareness of human rights increased, as their definition expanded and as new, often authoritarian polities, resorted to torture and repression - human rights advocates and non-governmental organizations proliferated. It has become a business in its own right: lawyers, consultants, psychologists, therapists, law enforcement agencies, scholars and pundits...
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Taping for TV prompts new-trial order; Appeals court rules on case involving Quincy man’s murder (Patriot Ledger)
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GREENVILLE - Circuit Court Judge Richard Smith denied King Young Brown Jr.'s quest for a new trial. He also denied all, but one of several other motions made from attorneys involved in the Brown case.
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