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Last Update: Thursday, March 24, 2005. 10:00am (AEDT) Kenyan authorities 'tortured terrorism suspects' By Africa correspondent Zoe Daniel Amnesty International has accused the authorities in Kenya of torturing people suspected of involvement in a terrorist bombing in the country in 2002. The Amnesty International report is based on interviews with suspects held after the bombing of an Israeli owned hotel near the Kenyan city of Mombasa in 2002. The human rights group says one suspect was given electric shocks, others were beaten and some were held for up to 48 days without access to lawyers. Suspects claim the abuses were carried out by Kenyan and international investigators. Amnesty says various unconfirmed reports point to American and Israeli agents. Four Kenyans have been charged over the Al Qaeda suicide bombing which killed 15 Israeli tourists. Further condemnation Human rights groups have condemned a Kenyan government order that anyone who produces an illegal gun should be shot dead. Kenya's internal security minister has vowed to crack down on illegal firearms and earlier this week ordered that those with illegal weapons should be shot. He says violent crime in the capital Nairobi must be stopped and that police should shoot to kill. But human rights organisations say shooting people is not the answer to solving security issues in Kenya. They say that while crime is increasing, people still deserve to be presumed innocent until proven guilty - even if they are carrying a weapon. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
