Agents violated human rights at Guantanamo, UN report finds

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Source: Washington Post via The Age

Craig Whitlock, Berlin
February 28, 2009

A UNITED Nations special investigator has concluded, in a report scheduled for release today, that foreign intelligence agents sent to question US-held terrorism suspects in Guantanamo Bay had violated international human rights laws.

According to an advance copy of the report obtained by The Washington Post, Martin Scheinin, a Finnish diplomat and the UN special investigator for human rights, said foreign agents visiting Guantanamo or secret US jails overseas committed "an internationally wrongful act" even if they had merely observed interrogations.

"They were acting in breach of their legal obligations in regard to the prohibition on torture and arbitrary detention," Professor Scheinin, a law professor at the European University Institute in Florence, said.

The US military has allowed intelligence and law enforcement agents from at least 18 countries to interrogate Guantanamo inmates since the detention centre opened in 2002, according to the Centre for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based group that provides legal representation to many Guantanamo prisoners ...

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/agents-violated-human-rights-at-guantanamo-un-report-finds-20090227-8kc0.html

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1. REC

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2. Won;t change anything

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3. It certainly won't have any effect, if enough people decide it won't have any effect

Our task is to try to make things like this have an effect

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5. K&R

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6. From the Nation that brought us Abu Ghraib??

(again) "Shocking."

(once again) "Who would have thought that ..."

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7. Ummm - didn't half the WORLD know this YEARS ago?

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Frigadee us hoomans are slow to catch on . . .

But oh yeah, we're talking about the SOOPERPOWER here

They pretty much do what they want . . .

so far . . .