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It's hard to tell only from the video or the press coverage but I do think that it's a very worrisome development that can amount to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment under any circumstance....
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
First scrap the PTA, eliminate prolonged detention without trial in various forms, establish mechanism for real judicial and prosecutorial control over police investigations and things along those lines.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Bush administration itself had withdrawn the torture memos when it was discovered that these things were happening as a matter of policy, even the Republican administration had already recognized that these things are illegal.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They are illegal as a matter of international law, they are illegal as a matter of constitutional law in the United States, they are illegal as a matter of military law...and they are immoral anyway.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I hope that President Obama's pledge to reform the criminal justice system regarding the practice of prolonged or indefinite solitary confinement is implemented without delay.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
My request to visit the United States of America has been pending for five years over the terms of reference in order to obtain access to all places of detention.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
On the federal level, I want to go to ADX in Florence, Colorado and to the Manhattan Correctional Center, those are where people accused of terrorism are taken or where they serve their term.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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