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=== News Update ===
U.S. prepares to face U.N. on torture as Amnesty report blasts 'war crimes'
<http://rawstory.com>RAW STORY
Published: Friday April 28, 2006
As the United States prepares a team of 30 to defend its record on torture
before a U.N. committee, Amnesty International has made public a report
blasting the United States for failing to take appropriate steps to
eradicate use of torture at U.S. detention sites around the world,
<http://rawstory.com>RAW STORY has learned.
U.S. compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment will be the topic of May 5 and
8 U.N. hearings in Geneva.
The United States last appeared before the Committee Against Torture in
May, 2000. Amnesty claims that practices criticized by the Committee six
years ago -- such as the use of electro-shock weapons and excessively harsh
conditions in "super-maximum" security prisons -- have been used and
exported by U.S. forces abroad.
The Amnesty report
(<http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engmde140012006>Beyond Abu Ghraib:
detention and torture in Iraq) reviews several cases where U.S. detainees
held in Afghanistan and Iraq have died as a result of torture. The group
also lambasts U.S. use of electro-shock weapons, inhuman and degrading
conditions of isolation in "super-max" security prisons and abuses against
women in the prison system -- including sexual abuse by male guards,
shackling while pregnant and even in labor.
As of now, the U.S. has yet to prosecute a single official, military
officer or private contractor for "torture" or "war crimes" related to its
occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, or the "war on terror."
"The heaviest sentence imposed on anyone to date for a torture-related
death while in U.S. custody is five months," notes Curt Goering, Senior
Deputy Executive Director for Amnesty International USA. "[That's] the same
sentence that you might receive in the U.S. for stealing a bicycle."
The five month sentence resulted from the death of a 22-year-old
taxi-driver, who had been hooded and chained to a ceiling, then kicked and
beaten until dead.
"The U.S. government is not only failing to take steps to eradicate
torture," he adds, "it is actually creating a climate in which torture and
other ill-treatment can flourish -- including by trying to narrow the
definition of torture."
The report argues that these cases are not isolated incidents, but part of
an overall pattern condoned by U.S. officials.
"While the government continues to try to claim that the abuse of detainees
in U.S. custody was mainly due to a few 'aberrant' soldiers, there is clear
evidence to the contrary," said Javier Zuniga, Amnesty International's
Americas Program Director. "Most of the torture and ill-treatment stemmed
directly from officially sanctioned procedures and policies -- including
interrogation techniques approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld."
Amnesty's findings have already been sent to members of the UN Committee
Against Torture.
At its May 1-19 session, the Committee Against Torture will consider
reports presented by Georgia, Guatemala, Republic of Korea, Qatar, Peru,
Togo and the United States. With the exceptions of Korea and Peru, Amnesty
has also provided reports about the actions of these nations.
source:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/As_U.S._prepares_to_face_U.N._0428.html
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