Nbadan
06-27-2005, 04:03 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush, whose administration has been hit by accusations of prisoner abuse, said on Sunday that the United States was committed to the elimination of torture worldwide.
In a statement to mark United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Bush said: "Freedom from torture is an inalienable human right, and we are committed to building a world where human rights are respected and protected by the rule of law."
Accusations of prisoner abuse in Iraq, Afghanistan and at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have brought into question the policies of the Bush administration in treating foreign prisoners.
The United States has also been accused of sending some prisoners to countries with poor human rights records where they might be tortured. An Italian judge last week ordered the arrest of 13 people linked to the CIA for kidnapping an Egyptian terrorism suspect in Milan and flying him to Egypt, where he said he was tortured.
more: Yahooo News (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050626/us...)
full statement here:
Statement By President Bush
~snip~
Many have been detained, arrested, thrown in prison, and subjected to torture by regimes that fail to understand that their habits of control will not serve them well in the long-term. America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies. All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.
~snip~
Yahoo News (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050626/nysu015.html?.v=15)
Gee, and to think that our new Attorney General spent all that time writing about how Iraq war prisoners aren't protected by Geneva Convention rules against torture. I guess it’s not torture if you call it just a mild inconvenience.
New photos of Abu Gharib abuse are scheduled to be released this week. Among them are rumored to be pictures of rape of women and children by interrogators, but they got rice pilaf and 3 squares a day, so there.
In a statement to mark United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Bush said: "Freedom from torture is an inalienable human right, and we are committed to building a world where human rights are respected and protected by the rule of law."
Accusations of prisoner abuse in Iraq, Afghanistan and at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have brought into question the policies of the Bush administration in treating foreign prisoners.
The United States has also been accused of sending some prisoners to countries with poor human rights records where they might be tortured. An Italian judge last week ordered the arrest of 13 people linked to the CIA for kidnapping an Egyptian terrorism suspect in Milan and flying him to Egypt, where he said he was tortured.
more: Yahooo News (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050626/us...)
full statement here:
Statement By President Bush
~snip~
Many have been detained, arrested, thrown in prison, and subjected to torture by regimes that fail to understand that their habits of control will not serve them well in the long-term. America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies. All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.
~snip~
Yahoo News (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050626/nysu015.html?.v=15)
Gee, and to think that our new Attorney General spent all that time writing about how Iraq war prisoners aren't protected by Geneva Convention rules against torture. I guess it’s not torture if you call it just a mild inconvenience.
New photos of Abu Gharib abuse are scheduled to be released this week. Among them are rumored to be pictures of rape of women and children by interrogators, but they got rice pilaf and 3 squares a day, so there.