Annoying – so determined to remove from the report on CIA secret prisons and torture Polish name of the representative of Human Rights Watch. According to John Sifton does not make sense, because “everyone knows” which country is all about. The representative of the United Nations appealed to prosecute those guilty of breaking the law by the CIA.
– “Blue place of detention” referred to in the report, is a place in northern Poland to Hawaii. We agreed that on the basis of previously available information – said John Sifton of Human Rights Watch (HRW), which first wrote back in 2005 that the secret prisons of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were located in Poland and Romania.
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How rated Sifton, camouflage in the report of the Senate the names of locations where you fit into the prison, is “annoying, because it’s not a secret”. – Poland has been repeatedly mentioned in public, including in the judgment of the court in Strasbourg. Keeping this in formal secrecy allows while the Polish authorities to continue ambiguity – he said. He pointed out that even the US government denies the accusations in the media and information about where they were CIA prisons. – They just simply refuse to comment on the matter. The US government does not deny it because it would be a lie – Sifton said.
In his view, exaggerated concern that disclosure of the names could increase the risk to the United States or countries that have agreed to cooperate with the CIA. – Al-Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups have long known that the CIA tortured their representatives – he said.
He recalled that the CIA already had formulated similar concerns, trying to prevent the publication of his controversial interrogation program. – In 2005, the publishers said, “The Washington Post”, that publication of the names of Polish and Romanian can trigger attacks of Al-Qaeda in the two countries. This is not the case. Al-Qaeda has long knows this, so why report could make a difference – he added.
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The expert pointed out that the report published by the Senate confirms the already known information about torture . What is new is the “scale fraud”. – Senators have shown that, contrary to the assurances of the CIA and President George W. Bush that the interrogation program worked with “professional agents,” many of them exceeded its powers – pointed out.
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But the most important and completely new information in the report recognized disclosure of the existence of an internal CIA document, prepared by the agency’s lawyers already in 2002, which was granted, that the techniques used during interrogations break the law prohibiting torture and the Geneva Convention on Human Rights.
– This is very important because for many years the White House defended the CIA, saying that the agency does not know what is and is not legal. It turns out that the CIA has 2002, that is, at the very beginning of the program, she knew that what she was doing was illegal. (…) And then, when requested a legal opinion to lawyers Ministry of Justice and the White House tried to “legalize” what was illegal – he said.
Expert expressed disappointment that the administration for six years Barack Obama failed to anybody indicted. – Unfortunately, it is clear that, and now still no one bet. But at least this report may make in the future will not allow the CIA itself already at such practices and deny, if any other president get the idea of secret prisons. Because even though no one has been charged, the program will cost them (agency CIA – ed.), A lot of problems – he said.
UN will prosecute?
The prosecution involved in the CIA interrogation program called the representative of the UN. human rights and the fight against terrorism. Ben Emmerson said that the representatives of the government of George Bush, who planned and authorized these crimes must be held accountable, as well as members of the CIA and other US officials who used torture such as waterboarding.
Emmerson in a statement issued in Geneva stressed that under international law the United States are legally obliged to bring those responsible for criminal prosecution. He pointed out that such an obligation rests on the Attorney General of the United States.
Emmerson, a British lawyer who at the behest of the UN Human Rights Council to address this issue from r. 2010 applauded the long-awaited publication of the summary report, praising the Obama administration “for opposing the internal pressure to conceal these important facts.”
Author: mk gak // / PAP
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