U.N. rights body tells U.S. to shut "secret" jails

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060728/ts_nm/rights_usa_dc;_ylt=AjYueMd2pO4iw4JJIeWRnjOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-

U.N. rights body tells U.S. to shut "secret" jails

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Committee told Washington on Friday it should immediately shut all "secret detention" facilities and give the International Committee of the Red Cross access to anybody held in armed conflict.


In its findings on U.S. observance of the United Nation's main political rights' convention, the committee said it had "credible and uncontested" information that the United States had detained people "secretly and in secret places for months and years."

"The state party (United States) should immediately abolish all secret detention and secret detention facilities," it said in its report.

[LynnTheDem]

1. Rogue state..

What do you call a nation that wages unprovoked wars of invasion & aggression?

What do you call a nation that holds prisoners for years without trial?

What do you call a nation that officially sanctions torture & abuse?

What do you call a nation that has secret jails?

What do you call a nation that needs to change laws to avoid war crimes prosecutions?

How could one stupid little man and his stupid little cabal destroy so much, so many, in such a short time.

[sam sarrha]

2. where do they get off tell'n us we CANT boil people alive in Uzbekistan

if we dont keep W's people busy SOMEWHERE ELSE they will be do'n that Sh*t to US HERE..

[bennywhale]

3. The word democracy, and perhaps even

the concept democracy has been irreversably smeared and damaged for generations because of this governments criminality.

i too would love to see democracy flourish throughout the world. these bastards have ensured that won't happen in our lifetime.

[0007]

4. Stop the Madman

[Supersedeas]

5. * will keep secret jails then openly imprison reporters for disclosing it

[Ezlivin]

6. The U.N. has officially become a terrorist organization

By revealing our secret prisons they are aiding and abetting the enemy. Hence, they are supporting terrorists. Thus they are terrorists.

Bush logic. Use with discretion and only when well armed.

[mcscajun]

7. Did anyone here at DU over the age of 50 EVER think you'd read

such a headline? Ever? Pogo was right but at the wrong time: "We have met the enemy and he is US."

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