Torture

In the United States the hostility between the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee has moved into top gear with revelations torturing terrorism suspects did not yield any signficant… Audio

The chief of the Defence Force will not allow Afghan prisoners captured by New Zealand forces to be sent to prisons on a UN torture list but can't guarantee the same for people arrested in joint… Audio

The Green Party is sceptical of claims by the Defence Minister that insurgents caught by SAS troops in Afghanistan have not been tortured. Audio

A United Nations report out this morning says prisoners, including children, at many Afghan-run facilities have been subjected to torture. Audio

Human Rights Watch has called on the U.S President Barack Obama to order a criminal investigation into former President George W Bush and his top officials over the use of torture. Audio

Psychiatrist and award-winning author Professor Robert Jay Lifton has written about the Nazi doctors who took part in the Holocaust, the survivors of Hiroshima, torture and brainwashing, atrocity and… Audio

The Labour Party leader, Phil Goff, is calling for an independent inquiry into claims the SAS has arrested and transferred prisoners in Afghanistan, who were then at risk of being abused and tortured.

Have NZ SAS troops handed over prisoners to authorities who might torture them? We hear from investigative reporter John Stephenson. Audio

The latest Wikileaks revelations show many of the detainees at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp were being held on the flimsiest grounds or from confessions extracted by torture. Audio

International human rights groups are calling for the Indonesian government to launch an independent investigation into new reports of torture. Audio

The government says it has taken note of a court ruling in Britain that's upheld a ban on British forces transferring prisoners to Afghanistan's secret police in Kabul because of the risk of torture.

The British government says it will hold an independent inquiry into claims its security services were complicit in the torture of terror suspects abroad. Audio

The British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced an inquiry into allegations that Britain's security services were complicit in the torture of terrorism suspects overseas. Audio

Law professor Jeremy Waldron discusses torture and terror. Audio

Horror stories of death and torture are among the first testimonies given to the Solomon Island's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Audio

The head of Britain's domestic spy service MI5 has strongly denied his agency covered up the torture of terrorism suspects. Audio

The British government has lost an Appeal Court bid to stop the disclosure of secret information relating to the alleged torture of a UK resident by US authorities. Audio

A salvo's been fired at the US President Barack Obama by the former Vice President Dick Cheney in response to the investigation into suspected torture of detainees at secret CIA prisons around the… Audio

For the latest news from the UK, we're joined now by our correspondent in London, Barney Burnham. Audio

Law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs, discussing the US administration's continued use of torture. Audio