Wednesday, December 10, 2014

UN official wants US administrators involved in torture to be prosecuted...

Following the publication on Tuesday of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Bush-era CIA interrogation practices, a top United Nations expert has called for US officials involved in torture to be prosecuted — and he says that they can be tried in any country.

"It is now time to take action," Ben Emmerson, UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, declared in a statement. "The individuals responsible for the criminal conspiracy revealed in today's report must be brought to justice, and must face criminal penalties commensurate with the gravity of their crimes."

Emmerson noted that the primary responsibility to prosecute lies with the US Department of Justice and the US Attorney General's Office, but added that "the perpetrators may be prosecuted by any other country they may travel to."

"Torture is a crime of universal jurisdiction," he said.

Senate torture report finds the CIA was less effective and more brutal than anyone knew. Read more here.

After more than four years of political wrangling, the Senate Intelligence Committee made public a 500-page summary of its 6,000-page investigation into the CIA's secret post-9/11 interrogation tactics. The committee found that the CIA misled the White House and Congress about its treatment of terrorism suspects, and concluded that its methods — including waterboarding, which led to "series of near drownings," and the subjection of detainees to "rectal rehydration," or rectal feeding, as a form of behavioral control — were far more brutal than the agency admitted. Full story...

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