Word: inhumanity
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...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...
...that was not, in itself, a violation of Defense Department policy, but that was cumulatively "abusive and degrading." Many of the techniques now could conceivably be prohibited under a law passed in December and sponsored by Sen. John McCain of Arizona that bans U.S. personnel from engaging in "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" of prisoners...
...systematic use of the statements and the scope of their content, asserting a very broad legal loophole for the Executive. Last December, for example, after a year of debate, the President signed the McCain amendment into law. In the wake of Abu Ghraib, the amendment banned all "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of U.S. military detainees. For months, the President threatened a veto. Then the Senate passed it 90 to 9. The House chimed in with a veto-proof majority. So Bush backed down, embraced McCain and signed it. The debate was over, right? That's how our democracy works...
...CONTROVERSY While insisting that the U.S. does not practice torture, the Administration fought a congressional effort to ban U.S. forces anywhere from "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment of detainees. That, plus an aborted Administration effort to limit the definition of torture to that which inflicts agony just short of the pain of organ failure or death, and photographic evidence that U.S. troops abused prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, have created the image of a government tolerant of the practice...