Amnesty International's List of how the Torture Law violates Human Rights.

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Among other things, the Act will:

• Strip the US courts of jurisdiction to hear or consider habeas corpus appeals challenging the lawfulness or conditions of detention of anyone held in US custody as an “enemy combatant”. Judicial review of cases would be severely limited. The law would apply retroactively, and thus could result in more than 200 pending appeals filed on behalf of Guantánamo detainees being thrown out of court.
  
  
• Permit the executive to convene military commissions to try “alien unlawful enemy combatants”, as determined by the executive under a dangerously broad definition, in trials that would provide foreign nationals so labeled with a lower standard of justice than US citizens accused of the same crimes. This would violate the prohibition on the discriminatory application of fair trial rights.
  
  
• Permit the use in military commission trials of evidence extracted under cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
  
  
• Give the military commissions the power to hand down death sentences after trials that did not meet international standards.
  
  
• Permit the executive to determine who is an “enemy combatant” under any “competent tribunal” established by the executive, and endorse the Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT), the wholly inadequate administrative procedure that has been employed in Guantánamo to review individual detentions.
  
  
• Prohibit any person from invoking the Geneva Conventions or their protocols as a source of rights in any action in any US court.
  
  
• Narrow the scope of the War Crimes Act by not expressly criminalizing acts that constitute "outrages upon personal dignity, particularly humiliating and degrading treatment" banned under international law. Amnesty International believes that the USA has routinely failed to respect the human dignity of detainees in the "war on terror".
  
  
• Endorse the administration’s "war paradigm" – under which the USA has selectively applied the laws of war and rejected international human rights law. The legislation would backdate the "war on terror" to before the 11 September 2001(!!!) in order to be able to try individuals in front of military commissions for "war crimes" committed before that date.
  

http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-060930-features-eng

[yodermon]

1. kicking

thanks for the votes. I think this is a nice handy list.

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2. and another

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3. I can help kick...

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[yodermon]

4. why thank ya

one more vote?

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5. last gast-effort to get on front page

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