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...government engages in this abuse; as a Muslim, I am frightened that presumed religious fundamentalists have been so psychologically and physically tortured that they have tried to kill themselves (suicide, according to Islam, sends one straight to hell); and as a U.S. citizen, I find it morally unacceptable that inhuman acts are committed in our country's name...
...practice "utterly alien to the European tradition," an awful lot of European nations were apparently willing to help. So is Europe serious about opposing torture? On paper, yes: Section I, Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights states: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." But torture is one of those areas where European reality is a bit messier than theory. In 2000, Amnesty International pointed to a troubling number of reports of ill treatment within Europe, many pertaining to the alleged abuse of asylum seekers. The implications...
...first clear warning sign came in January 2005 during the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Reinterpreting the meaning of a U.S. reservation to the Convention Against Torture, Gonzales claimed that the treaty’s prohibition of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” (also known as “CID”) did not apply to non-Americans held by U.S. forces outside the United States. Other governments abuse detainees clandestinely, but the Gonzales testimony made the United States the only government in the world to affirm the power...
...riot police in full gear, forcing them into the nearby Yanka Kupala park. "There were some 20,000 of us packed in the park," Irina Khalip, a Belarusian journalist and human-rights activist, told Time by telephone. "The people were angry with the rigged election, mass arrests and inhuman treatment of the detainees." Khalip says that Alexander Kozulin, a key opposition leader and a presidential candidate in the election, led a protest march to the jail in Okrestina Street. Then things turned violent. "My husband walked up to the commanding officer smiling and with flowers in hand," Irina Kozulin told...
...adequately monitor the interrogation of a high-value detainee, believed to be al-Qahtani. But Miller's superior, Southern Command Commander General Bantz Craddock, decided against the reprimand. Congress last December passed a provision, sponsored by Senator John McCain of Arizona, that bars U.S. personnel from engaging in "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" of detainees anywhere. The provision came too late for al-Qahtani; it's not clear how much protection it will afford prisoners like him who are subjected to such handling in the future...