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Red Cross Condemns Torture Bill

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Posted on Oct 19, 2006

The International Committee of the Red Cross will contact the White House to address concerns over U.S. torture policy’s compliance with the Geneva Conventions, including: “The very broad definition of who is an ‘unlawful enemy combatant’ and the fact that there is not an explicit prohibition on the admission of evidence attained by coercion….”


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ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger said the law raised “questions” about its compliance with the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war.

He said some points had been ommitted, such as the right to a fair trial and the ban on humiliating and degrading treatment of prisoners.

President Bush signed the law on Tuesday, saying it would say US lives.

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By jupiter, October 20, 2006 at 10:45 am Link to this comment
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everyone knows this is not a law. it couldn’t be legal or remotely civilized in anyone’s book. it’s a spoiled know-nothing, kindergarden pooh-in-the-pants impossibility of a document, which must lead to the imprisonment and attachment of the assets of boy bush and his s&m klunsel gonzalez.
Red Cross states the Obvious.

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By mark shertoff, October 20, 2006 at 10:17 am Link to this comment
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The law as passed will take the U.S. out of the Geneva Conventions. Even U.S. citizens will be subject to unlawful detention and torture as defined by G.W. Bush. Since Bush has loosely defined torture as something equal or greater than organ failure, the international conventions are moot.

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