Weekend reading: Amnesty International’s detailed analysis of President Obama’s executive orders on Guantanamo, detentions and interrogations.
Here’s a taste:
Accountability and remedy
The new administration and Congress should take the necessary measures to ensure accountability and remedy for human rights violations committed by or at the instigation of the USA, including by, among other things:
Setting up an independent commission of inquiry into all aspects of the USA’s detention and interrogation policies and practices since 11 September 2001.
Ensuring that all allegations of particular violations of individuals’ rights under international human rights or humanitarian law are thoroughly and effectively investigated.
Ensuring that all those responsible for crimes under international law are brought to justice, including through criminal prosecution with sentences that take account of the grave nature of the acts concerned.
Amnesty International’s full recommendations on accountability are set out in USA: Investigation, prosecution, remedy: Accountability for human rights violations in the ‘war on terror’.
well these orders really jump start the things for sure.
well these orders really jump start the things for sure.
It's great that Obama is taking such swift and high-profile action in the few weeks since he's been in office. It's great to see such transparency in the upper levels of our government. What other Campaign Manager has ever been cheered on Election Night (go David!)? It's a breath of fresh air, I tell you.
It’s great that Obama is taking such swift and high-profile action in the few weeks since he’s been in office. It’s great to see such transparency in the upper levels of our government. What other Campaign Manager has ever been cheered on Election Night (go David!)? It’s a breath of fresh air, I tell you.