1.   A federal appeals court overturned the convictions of three white police officers in the Abner Louima torture case Thursday, finding insufficient evidence they obstructed justice.

2.   China is a party to a U.N. treaty banning torture, but has exempted itself from the clause allowing outsiders to investigate alleged torture cases.

3.   What led to the horrendous behavior of the convicted policemen in the Abner Louima torture case?

4.   A recent report by another U.S. organization, the Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights, charged that Turkish doctors were forced by authorities to conceal torture cases.

5.   Activists have said that doctors are often pressured not to report torture cases.

6.   Convenant House will present the torture cases at the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva later this month.

7.   He said the office was putting its agents through mandatory classes in observing human rights and was working to improve and standardize reporting of alleged torture cases.

8.   He mentioned that some alleged torture cases were being investigated as murder in a reply to a question from an Inkatha Freedom Party member of Parliament.

9.   Many doctors who attempt to write medical reports on torture cases are intimidated into silence, it said.

10.   New state charges could be filed in the Abner Louima police torture case if federal authorities decide against it, a prosecutor has said.