That’s Lord Falconer, the highest ranking British legal official, on the Guantamano prison camp.
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EU demands to know location of CIA prisons Bush admits CIA had secret prisons But he says no one was tortured. As always, one needs to cut through the fog of neocon lies and evasions to get to the truth. First off, Bush says the hideous treatment of detainees at Guantanamo isn’t torture because he defines torture as something only evildoers do. As [...] The British authorities are threatening legal action against Craig Murray due to his new book, Murder in Samarkland, which details the US/British policy of sending prisoners to Uzbekistan to be tortured. They blocked him from putting some of his documenting evidence into the book so he put them online. Now they want those gone too [...] As Britain’s outspoken Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray helped expose vicious human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov. He is now a prominent critic of Western policy in the region. He was fired for his trouble, after exposing the US/British policy of sending prisoners there to be [...] Court curbs Bush power, fans Guantanamo debate By declaring the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals illegal, the U.S. Supreme Court put fresh curbs on President George W. Bush’s powers in the war on terrorism and gave ammunition to those demanding the prison be closed. Rumors that Cheney said “this shows the Supreme Court loves the terrorists [...] “Flying to select torture chambers around the world” Air Torture is the premiere airline transporting detainees to select torture chambers around the world. Organizations such as Amnesty International like to call our business “outsourcing torture” because we deliver all our customers to countries where torture is routinely practiced – but our partners at the [...] Bosnia and Herzegovina formally has acknowledged to the Council of Europe that it allowed US forces to seize six Algerian-born men and transfer them to Guantanamo even after a local court acquitted them due to lack of evidence. The order came from Rumsfeld EU lawmakers backed accusations on Monday that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had kidnapped and illegally held terrorism suspects on EU territory and flown them to countries that used torture. That is, the CIA specifically sent them to those countries to be tortured. “The Fava report makes clear that illegal activities, including rendition of prisoners [...] |  | ||||
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