Just hours after former VP Dick Cheney defended the use of torture during an interview with Fox News Sunday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), appearing on CBS' Face the Nation insisted that the use of torture on terrorism suspects violated international law, didn't work, and actually helped al Qaeda recruit additional members.

Fellow bloggers, readers, and friends, the secret to getting your clicks up appears to revolve around posts that insinuate Cheney is, was, will be, or might have been a liar or putting it politely and mildly, a mis-speaker. Just a few days ago Senator Carl Levin stated as much: Levin: Cheney Lied About Torture’s Success.

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that the photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which President Barack Obama has so far censored include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse.

The students are getting younger, but the questions remain the same. After being "interrogated" in a Stanford University dorm last week, Condoleeza Rice faced similar questioning in a Q&A session at the Jewish Primary Day School in Washington, DC, on Sunday.

On Thursday night former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice visited a Stanford University dorm and was "interrogated" over the Bush administration's torture policies.

Barack Obama enraged the right wing by releasing the Bush torture memos. Apparently the right wing is fine with torture and cannot bear that it has been made public. Obama, however, also enraged the rest of us by refusing to prosecute members of the CIA who carried out the torture. This, many of us felt, was a major defeat for the rule of law and respect for human dignity. But for those of us who have a sense of justice, it turns out that there is now a glimmer of hope that we will see some justice done.

At the same time that the Justice Department made public four memos in which Bush administration lawyers approved "tough interrogation methods" used against 28 terror suspects, President Barack Obama said that CIA operatives who carried out the torture would not be prosecuted.

Two British judges say that the U.S. has threatened to withdraw intelligence help from the United Kingdom if the details of a case regarding a Guantanamo detainee who was allegedly tortured are made public.

A new survey released Tuesday by a U.S.-based research center shows a significant number of people around the world support the use of torture when related to terrorism. From VOA's New York Bureau, Mona Ghuneim reports on the findings.

There are 73 prisons in Kazakhstan, including 17 colony-settlements. Most of the places of detention are overcrowded. The total number of the convinced in the Republic of Kazakhstan exceeds 56.000. In 2007 only the number of sentenced increased for 4.300 (Regnum, March 19, 2008).

Four Armenian citizens are subjected to tortures in Azerbaijan, said colonel Arshak Karapetyan, deputy chief of the armed forces general staff of Armenia. Prisoner torture in Azerbaijan is an accepted practice in that country.