Sentences with phrase «american prisoners»

Robert Lifton studied American prisoners of war extensively and outlined the kind of process (torture) that Bengtsson and others like him should expect to encounter: 1.

The shrine that commemorates Filipino and american prisoners and soldiers who fought and died in Bataan (Death March) under the Japanese forces during world war II.

Going in and walking through the park, you will find a carefully told story of the infamous Palawan Massacre where 150 American prisoners where burned alive and only 11 escaped from teh brutal forces of the Japanese invaders.

I read up on terrible things that happen to adults too (above all, the mind - breaking solitary confinement of approximately 25,000 American prisoners at any one time).

More than forty years after their release from the notorious «Hanoi Hilton,» three American prisoners of war return to Vietnam to make peace with their most brutal former captor, a guard whom they've dubbed, «Mr. Wonderful.»

After two Tuskegee Airmen are brought to the camp, racial tensions between the Yankee prisoners erupt, leading to a murder and an extended court martial that casts doubt on the American prisoners» moral superiority in questions of race and justice.

In this low budget fantasy adventure from Britain, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs» 1918 science fiction novel, a German submarine holding American prisoners of war during World War I, veers off course.

The Obama administration is facing a storm of Republican criticism after acknowledging that a $ 400 million cash payment to Iran seven months ago was contingent on the release of a group of American prisoners.

Especially odd — indeed, suspicious — might seem the act of imposing silence on African - American prisoners.

An older African - American prisoner, Terry, replied, «I've only just become a Christian; but doesn't it say somewhere in the New Testament that when two or three are gathered together Jesus promises to be with us?»

Of course, the American prisoner is bowed but... you know.

The opportunity arises for the CIA to potentially trade Abel to Russia for an American prisoner of war or two, and Donovan becomes the logical choice to negotiate the terms.

Horst is transferred to the Western Front where he is captured by the Allies and goes on to spend the rest of the war in an American prisoner of war camp.

Not exact matches

The White House said Pence would use his address to the Organization of American States to call on nations to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to address the country's humanitarian crisis, release political prisoners and hold free and fair elections.

umm... Alex it is Iraq and Afghanistan asking us about the prisoners that we as Americans are holding in Cuba without trial....

but we never see personal accounts of rape and torture of iraqi prisoners by america, we never see personal stories of ex guantanamobay who were falsly prisoned without trialed and tortured by american.

RAMPANT REBUKES: Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Scientologists, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State quickly condemned the Court's decision, which could make it harder for parents to exempt their children from offensive classes or for prisoners to participate in Bible studies.

It's the single largest federal prisoner release in American history.

To get to know one black, one ghetto dweller, one American Indian, one Chicano, one member of the Appalachian poor, and also one prisoner, one exploited woman, one inmate of a mental hospital — that is still a top priority on the agenda of theology.

Bridge of Spies reunites director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks (who've collaborated on films including The Terminal, Catch Me If You Can and Saving Private Ryan) to tell the true story of an American attorney entrusted to negotiate a high - profile prisoner exchange during the Cold War.

East European Pentecostals have no wealth, institutional power or privilege to lose; so when need arises, they go to prison and turn their prisons into «Bible schools» to convert their jailers, as St. Paul did, They spread faith and hope to fellow prisoners as Black Muslims have done in some American prisons.

The Iranian - American pastor from Idaho, held for more than three years, was exchanged as part of a prisoner swap in which Iran released four people and the United States released seven.

American patriotism would be more honest if we Americans were as aware of the moral shortcomings of our past dealings with African - Americans, Native Americans and the civilians of countries with whom we have been at war as Germans are of the Nazi treatment of Jews, gypsies and Russian prisoners of war.

And six months after the Democratic Party took control of both houses of Congress, the prison at Guantánamo Bay was still open and conducting drumhead courts martial of the prisoners held there; the CIA was still using «enhanced interrogation techniques» on prisoners in foreign jails; illegal intrusions into the privacy of American citizens continued unabated; and, more than fifty years after the CIA was founded, it continues to operate under, at best, the most perfunctory congressional oversight.

I think, for instance, of Chuck Colson, who did more than any other man in the last probably 100 years in American life in calling the Church to remember prisoners and to think about implications of the justice system.

His description of the pride with which many of his African - American fellow prisoners (not «friends» — the word means lover in prison parlance) graduate from high school while behind bars is moving.

Only one who speaks from within could so clearly describe what American society has done with millions of prisoners.

''... nearly 75 percent of Americans are God - fearing Christians; 75 percent of prisoners are God - fearing Christians.

10 percent of Americans are atheists; 0.2 percent of prisoners are atheists.»

Five American citizens have reportedly been released by Iran as part of a prisoner swap.

He says that our government was concerned about the presence of German prisoners of war in Siberia and other matters connected with the ending of World War I. Even if that is the case, the Russian memory of that American counterrevolutionary presence has always been a negative factor in U.S. - Soviet relations.

Both kinds of critics argue that in comparison with the scandal of world hunger, with human rights violations and the plight of political prisoners, with oppressive regimes of the right or left, the real or imagined oppression of white, middle - class American women seems a secondary, even trivial, concern.

Last week, The U.S. did a prisoner swap with Iran, releasing seven Iranian prisoners in exchange for five American citizens being held in Iranian prisons.

In October 2003 Chile became the first Latin American nation to establish a second truth commission, The first, the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (also known as the Rettig Commission), investigated the cases of» the dead and disappeared, which numbered almost 4,000, and provided compensation for their families, Now the Commission on Torture and Political Prisoners has heard for the first time from the survivors of Pinochet's repression, estimated at some 35,000 people.

• African - Americans represent only 12 % of the US population and yet 44 % of all prisoners in the US are black.

The Sopranos dares instead to explore the terrible banality of evil, depicting ordinary people held prisoner by their habits and appetites who choose hell instead of heaven over and over again, not with a satanic flourish but with an all - American sense of entitlement.

American taxpayers spend billions of dollars keeping prisoners locked away (where they receive free medical treatment).

The week belonged to a ghost and a prisoner — the murdered American wrestler Dave Schultz and his accused killer, eccentric millionaire John du Pont, who police say gunned the wrestler down in his own driveway, with Schultz's wife, Nancy, watching in horror as Du Pont fired the last shot.

I guess that not only do a majority of right wing evangelical american christians support torturing prisoners of war, they also support torturing their own children!

In Judith Thompson's new play three women - an American soldier facing a court - martial for prisoner abuse and torture, a British former UN Weapons Inspector exposed as a BBC source, and an Iraqi woman trailed by Saddam Hussein's secret police - contemplate events in Iraq.http: / / www.traverse.co.uk /

A group calling itself «Team Halloran» launched a campaign last week on Halloran's Twitter account and Facebook page, which was renamed «Dan Halloran: An American Political Prisoner.»

Mr Salmond told Sky News this morning that the American government's position was that they did not want Megrahi to be released - but preferred a compassionate release over a prisoner transfer deal.

Proposals to build up to three American style jails each housing 2500 prisoners were announced in December 2007 and provoked an outcry.

For the Taliban, they insist on the return of prisoners from Guantánamo; for the Americans, they insist the Taliban must renounce links with al - Qaeda, lay down their arms and accept the Afghan constitution.

Dan Halloran, the pagan practitioner and ex-Queens Councilman in prison for his role in a mayoral bribery scheme, is now complaining that he's an «American political prisoner.»

Some are specific (for example, neither Roman need to get more slaves and gold; nor some Mexica Empire's need for more human sacrifices out of war prisoners, are at all applicable to British Empire, or Vidal - imagined «American Empire»).

Days after the U.S government exchanged five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the American solider who reportedly left his post in Afghanistan and was captured by the Taliban, the decision doesn't sit well with Utica - area Rep. Richard Hanna.

Wyndham's expertise in this area led the American Psychological Association in late July to invite her to serve on its Task Force on Human Rights established after an April 2015 report asserted that the association had worked with U.S. government officials on its terrorism prisoner interrogation and torture program set up during the George W. Bush administration following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Numerous organizations, including Amnesty International and the American Chemical Society, are also calling for the release of the chemist, and the U.S. government has said he is a political prisoner.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Council for Responsible Genetics filed the suit on behalf of several prisoners who had resisted the forced testing.