UN expert slams US for not looking into torture claims
OPS_admin | Mar 11, 2010 | Comments 0
The UN’s independent expert on torture on Wednesday criticised the Obama administration for not investigating allegations of torture made when president George W. Bush was in power.
“This is my criticism of the Obama administration: There is not enough done to remedy what has been done in the past,” Manfred Nowak, UN special rapporteur on torture, told journalists.
“I think it’s a legal question,” he said.
“The US are a part of the UN Convention against Torture, but there are very clear legal obligations — wherever you have indications, complaints about torture, then you have to investigate them independently and effectively.”
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The oligarchs openly talking about a coup d'état in America?
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