Larisa Alexandrovna: US Suspects Treated Like Military Prisoners

[kpete]

Report: Treatment of US suspects at home mirrors that of terror suspects in military custody

Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Thursday July 13, 2006

Human Rights advocates see discrepancies between the official US Government account and a non-government organization (NGO) “shadow report,” and cite disturbing examples of human rights abuses that have gone unchecked within the US and unreported by the official government report to the UN Human Rights Committee.

Included in the shadow report are several examples of police brutality and prisoner abuse and torture that not only violate the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Conventions against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment (CAT), but also the United States Constitution.

The USG official report and the “shadow report” submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee will be discussed at hearings scheduled to begin on July 17, in Geneva, Switzerland.

The committee holds hearings every four years to review the compliance status of member nations who are signatories to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) -one of the two treatises that together make up what is commonly referred to as the International Bill of Rights. The US signed and ratified the treaty in 1992.

more at:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Report__0713.html

[lala_rawraw]

1. how this is less important than the cia civil filing is beyond me:(

[SnohoDem]

2. It isn't a less important story.

People are just fired up about the Plame story. They hope the suit will make some difference.

[kpete]

3. I knew when I posted this that it was important...

However, we have been conditioned to accept these atrocities. As each day, week, month go by, I find myself taking another swallow of shit and moving on.

I think we have accepted that this administration will do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING they can to increase their power.

Congress will do nothing to help us. So, those stories which involve the judicial branch, seem to hold the most hope for redemption from this nightmare. Unfortunately, the courts are barely, if at all reliable.

Keep up your good work. We can never give up. We need to keep prodding every available angle.

Attack, Attack, Attack
Larisa

[Sapphire Blue]

5. Thank you, again, Larisa. K & R

:kick:

[Sapphire Blue]

4. People wonder how Abu ghraib could have happened...

More from the Raw Story article...

Burge and his men “systematically tortured individuals during interrogations, also proves that officers throughout the chain of command were aware of the torture and condoned its practice,” Ritchie quoted in a summary of the case she provided to RAW STORY.

(snip)

Despite this, Ritchie points out that “not a single officer or member of the chain of command has been prosecuted for acts of torture or the conspiracy to obstruct justice required to cover up these crimes. In fact, most of the officers involved have never been sanctioned in any manner whatsoever.”

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Report__0713.html

(Sound familiar? The excerpt above is about the Chicago PD, not Abu Ghraib. *sigh* )

[goclark]

6. After observing in a Court this week, I would believe Anything!

I observed no JUSTICE with the Judge ~ he throws the book at anyone that comes near him that is a minority(99 %) and throws away the key.

You would think that he personally has stock in the jail system, like it is a Hilton hotel.

Huuum, maybe he does.

[madmusic]

7. That's one of the reasons

The Rethugs don't want the U.S. to abide by international law. BushCo could care less about any treaty we signed.