1. The Botswana government says that it will investigate the torture allegations. 2. That meant that only two of the original charges, the conspiracy count and a single torture allegation, survived from the original extradition request. 3. A High Court judge ruled Wednesday that that the Kuwaiti government is immune from a compensation claim over torture allegations by a former air force officer. 4. Amnesty International and the New York-based Human Rights Watch have called for an independent investigation into the torture allegations, which the Turkish Justice Ministry denies. 5. Britain has since thrown out all but the torture allegations as grounds on which Pinochet could be extradited to Spain. 6. But powerful heads of police stations stopped any real investigation of torture allegations, he said. 7. Ciller said the torture allegations were also being investigated. 8. Ecevit denied the torture allegations but confirmed Suslu had been arrested because he supports the autonomy-seeking Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Denmark. 9. Fox has expressed concern about the case and asked officials to look into the torture allegations. 10. He raised his voice to a scream, and threatened to lift the immunity of the four legislators who had made the torture allegations. |
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