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Group to file war crimes suit against U.S. over Abu Ghraib abuse in German courts

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 30 November 2004
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Wars and conflicts Justice Prison Europe USA

By John Byrne

Group that won Guantánamo ruling targets U.S. over Abu Ghraib

Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will file war crimes charges in Germany against senior U.S. administration officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

The charges, which will be filed Tuesday, name Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet, the former leading U.S. general in Iraq Ricardo Sanchez and seven other officials, according to a German newspaper.

"German law in this area is leading the world," Peter Weiss, vice president of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a human rights group, was quoted as saying in Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper’s Tuesday edition.

They accuse the United States of knowingly committing war crimes, as well as violations of international law and UN conventions. Because the U.S. does not recognize the international criminal court, the group decided to use national criminal law in Germany, which allows war criminals to be investigated wherever they may be living.

The Center for Constitutional Rights has not yet returned a call placed by RAW STORY at their New York office this afternoon. The group is due to present details of its case at several news conferences Tuesday.

“I hope the Federal Prosecutor’s Office takes our affair seriously," said Berlin human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck, “on examining the circumstances."

CCR was the driving force behind a Guantánamo prison ruling by the Supreme Court which found that detainees had the right to U.S. legal representation.

They are also party to a civil rights lawsuit against the City of New York on behalf of almost 2000 protesters and bystanders who say they were wrongly arrested during the Republican National Convention.

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German Article Link:

US-Juristen verklagen Rumsfeld in Karlsruhe
http://www.fr-aktuell.de/fr_home/startseite/?cnt=597721

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