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None of those techniques are legal under strict readings of international law. The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is perhaps the most relevant legal baseline, and it was interpreted by the first Bush Administration to mean that detainees should be protected from cruel...
The Third Geneva Convention forbids subjecting POWs to "cruel treatment and torture, outrages upon personal dignity and humiliating treatment." U.S. officials say Iraqi and Taliban captives are covered by the convention but al-Qaeda members are unlawful combatants and thus not covered. The convention says tribunals must decide a prisoner...
the text is fixed - perhaps at the European Council meeting in June - before deciding to have it ratified by Parliament or take the larger risk of submitting it to the public. And as if opposition from his own team wasn't enough, last week the European Commission announced it would...
In contrast, Akira describes his menswear as "a feminine collection but with a masculine shape." The Kyoto-born designer fashions clothes he'd wear himself - not a bad guide, since his "Comme des Gar?ons meets Bonds T shirt" style recently made the Sydney Morning Herald's best-dressed list. His...
Critics of the administration see the isolation and vulnerability of the American mission in Iraq right now as a product of policy choices personified by Rumsfeld: the aggressive unilateralism that has left the U.S. unable to attract significant allied participation; comments questioning the application of the Geneva Convention in instances...