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.

The Comoran government is demanding France hand over a rebel leader for trial, but France says it is considering granting him asylum.

The United States found itself Thursday on a Canadian list of countries where foreigners risk torture and abuse. The country is listed alongside countries such as Afghanistan, China, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Syria in a leaked internal training manual. Both Israel and the United States are officially allies of Canada.

Top democrats in the US Congress have sought the investigation into the destruction of two videotapes that documented harsh interrogations of terror suspects by the Justice Department.

U.S. lawmakers are calling for a review of the CIA's decision to destroy videotaped interrogations of terror suspects.

US President George W Bush has signed an executive order banning "creul, inhuman or degrading treatment" of terror suspects.

Torture, ill-treatment and killings continue to be met with persistent impunity for the security forces in Turkey, Amnesty International charged in a new report, Turkey: The Entrenched Culture of Impunity Must End, released on July 4th.