by Steve Sweeney
International editor
FEARS have been raised that a number of women are being tortured in police custody after they were detained in the Turkish capital Ankara during today’s protest demanding action over the disappearance of Gulistan Doku.
Security officials swooped and attacked the women as they gathered in the Turkish capital to mark a year since the Kurdish student went missing, amid fears she has been murdered.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Fears grow for flotilla activist Yvonne Ridley, abducted by Israeli soldiers and held in famous Ktzi'ot prison camp


