Quietly Killing Julian Assange

The sculptured tableaux of Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning – crusaders of transparency and free speech – are true to life… their silence is ironic. Where are the voices for Julian Assange? While Manning is serving her own jail sentence and Snowden lives in exile, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange remains locked up in […]

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Newsweek magazine – British High Court rules on Mau Mau torture case

NAIROBI – Under the searing midday sun octogenarian veterans of the Kenya’s Mau Mau Emergency danced and whooped on hearing news Friday the British High Court that the three elderly Kenyanscould pursue their case against the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) for the systemic torture they say they suffered at the hands of colonial administrators during […]

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Newsweek Magazine — See You in Court : Tales of Torture in Mau Mau-Era Detention Centers –

We Were Tortured in Kenya’s Mau Mau-Era Detention Centers Oct 8, 2012 1:00 AM EDT Waiting for justice more than 50 years—and counting, Margot Kiser reports from Kenya. The first thing Wambugu Wa Nyingi wants his visitors to see—even before he shows them the torture scars from his years in colonial-era Kenya’s detention centers—is the […]

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