Stinging comments come as America dismisses UN report on Guantánamo
de Richard Norton-Taylor and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
A high court judge yesterday delivered a stinging attack on America, saying its idea of what constituted torture was out of step with that of "most civilised nations".
The criticism, directed at the Bush administration’s approach to human rights, was made by Mr Justice Collins during a hearing over the refusal by ministers to request the release of three (…)
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Judge’s anger at US torture
17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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Australian TV airs more photos of US torture at Abu Ghraib
17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBy Bill Van Auken
Pictures of Iraqi prisoners-naked, wounded, covered with blood, women’s underwear draped over their heads, bound in painful and degrading “stress positions”-were broadcast on Australian television Wednesday, further exposing the horrors inflicted at the US military’s prison camp at Abu Ghraib and similar facilities across the globe.
The photographs, which also included images of battered and bloodied corpses, were apparently taken about the same time as those that (…) -
More photos of abuses but little has been done to prosecute the abusers
17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
The second set of photos of abuses in Abu-Graib prison has been published by an Australian TV (SBS). Australia has been a keen supporter for the invasion of Iraq. The published photos shows only a small fraction of the huge number of abuses committed on the detained Iraqis. The major abuses that should not be forgotten and must be lifted are:
1- The detention of Iraqis was and has been illegal and unjustified, since the USA troops are invading forces.
2- After the establishment of the (…) -
even more photos surfacing check these out
17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444
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Report: U.S. Is Abusing Captives
17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
2 comments# A U.N. inquiry says the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay at times amounts to torture and violates international law.
By Maggie Farley, Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK - A draft United Nations report on the detainees at Guantanamo Bay concludes that the U.S. treatment of them violates their rights to physical and mental health and, in some cases, constitutes torture.
It also urges the United States to close the military prison in Cuba and bring the captives to trial on U.S. (…) -
The Cost of Prisons
17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
by Tom Montgomery-Fate
The remarkable thing about Renny Golden’s writing is that it provides a bridge of understanding between a silenced, disenfranchised community and those who need to hear what that community is trying to say. Via her books, Golden, a professor of criminal justice, sociology, and social work at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, has constructed these bridges by deftly balancing social analysis with her deep concern for the voices of the analyzed. Whether (…) -
CNN Blames the Photos,Not the Torture
16 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsby Jeremy Scahill CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr should be given some kind of award for the most outrageously off-target reporting on the newly released photos and videos of U.S. torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. In her numerous appearances during the morning news cycle on CNN after the images were first broadcast on Australia’s SBS television, Starr described what she saw as the "root of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal" as such:
"Let’s start by (…) -
The photos America doesn’t want seen
15 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
21 commentsBy Matthew Moore
MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.
Tonight the SBS Dateline program plans to broadcast about 60 previously unpublished photographs that the US Government has been fighting to keep secret in a court case with the American Civil Liberties Union.
Although a US judge last year granted the union access to the photographs following a freedom-of-information request, the US (…) -
U.S. Initiates Legal Processes Against Christian Group that Marched to Guantánamo
12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentSeven individuals from Witness Against Torture, a group protesting the denial of rights to prisoners at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were served papers by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) last week. The group of twenty-four U.S. Christians marched over 60 miles to the Naval Base in an attempt to practice the Christian act of prisoner visitation. The group camped and fasted for four days at the gate of the militarized zone while awaiting access (…)
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WHO JUDGES THE JUDICIARY?
8 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsWHO JUDGES THE JUDICIARY?
By Peter Fredson
February 7, 2006
When I heard that the Senate Judiciary Committee was going to “investigate” President Bush’s arrogant claims of being above the law, and signing statements that he could pick and choose which laws he might observe, I worried about the partisanship of the committee. On previous occasions all the Republican Senators tried their best to hamper, trivialize, distract, and obfuscate any attempts to implicate the imperial President (…)