June 26, 2008

Amnesty Int'l slams tolerance of torture
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:40:54

Amnesty International accuses Europe of enactment over serious torture issues
Amnesty International has slammed Europe for tolerating human rights abuse and torture, highlighting cases that support its claims.

Coinciding with the UN's International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Amnesty International has issued a report accusing European governments of complicity and inaction over US-led rendition and secret detention by which people have been unlawfully detained and transferred from one country to another outside of any judicial process.

The report focuses on a number of notorious rendition cases, one of whom is Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian national and UK resident, rendered in 2002, allegedly tortured in Morocco and now detained for nearly fours years without trial at Guantanamo Bay.

"European governments are in a state of denial and have been sidestepping the truth for too long," said Amnesty International. "Their involvement in renditions and secret detention runs in stark contrast to their claims to be responsible actors in the fight against terrorism."

The report highlights six cases involving 13 individuals, details the involvement of European states.

This ranges from governments permitting CIA flights headed for rendition circuits to use European airports and airspace, as with Shannon Airport, to hosting secret detention centers, or "black sites" and includes the participation by security services from European states in interrogations of their own citizens while concealing their whereabouts from their families.

Also US detainees are being regularly transferred to detention centers such as Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; a facility known for its brazen use of torture to extract information from prisoners.

A number of individuals have also been subjected to enforced disappearance and the whereabouts of some three dozen people remain unknown. Every one of the victims of rendition interviewed by Amnesty International has said they were tortured or otherwise ill-treated in custody.

FBA/MMN

Why is nothing said about CANADA? It used Goosebay for landings, it did illegal interrogations, it refuses to obey court orders to release Omar Khadr and there are "detainees" going around talking about their abuse !! And then there's the curious case of CHINA which "observed" illegal interrogations at Guantanamo Bay .. yet where is the international torture prosecutor on this?

Oh, yeah, I forgot! Canadian Amnesty International is ABOVE THE LAW !! And I should know.




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