U.N. rights envoys condemn Bush plan on interrogation
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United Nations human rights   investigators said on Thursday that legislation proposed by   President Bush for tough interrogations of foreign terrorism   suspects would breach the Geneva Conventions.
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President Bush signed an executive order Friday spelling out new interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects that bar cruel and inhumane treatment, humiliation or denigration of prisoners' religious beliefs.
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The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday.
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The top U.N. official on torture said Friday that a bill before the U.S. Congress could deprive terrorism suspects of a fair trial and was especially troubling after the mistreatment of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
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The United Nations' torture investigator criticized the White House Wednesday for defending the use of waterboarding and urged the U.S. to give up its defense of "unjustifiable" interrogation methods.
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White House-backed legislation on   the treatment of terrorism suspects may protect them from   torture but gives the United States immunity from legal   challenges, human rights groups say.
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The gesture comes as the Bush administration is weighing whether to sponsor a resolution criticizing China's human rights record at a U.N. meeting next month.
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Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, under scorching criticism from senators, condemned torture as an interrogation tactic Thursday and promised to prosecute abusers of terror suspects. He also disclosed the White House was looking at trying to change the Geneva Conventions that protect prisoner rights.
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U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire over the treatment of terrorism suspects, has issued new rules to ensure that detention and interrogation by the CIA comply with the Geneva Conventions' ban on torture.
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The European Union condemned on Friday  the detention of terrorism suspects by the United States in  secret overseas prisons, whose existence U.S. President George  Bush first acknowledged last week.
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U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday strongly condemned Iran's detention of American citizens and called for them to be freed "immediately and unconditionally."
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In a rare admission, the United States said on Tuesday its own human rights record was in question in an annual report that criticized Iraq for its death squads with government links, kidnapping and torture.
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The United Nations' top human rights official said Friday that waterboarding Â a tactic used by the U.S. in its battle against terror Â qualifies as torture.
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A US Senate panel rejected President George W. Bush's plan to relax standards on the treatment of &quot;war on terror&quot; suspects, instead backing a substitute bill offering greater rights protections to foreign detainees.
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Amnesty International has urged both US presidential candidates to publicly commit to ending torture and inhuman treatment of detainees in US custody.
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U.S. military lawyers on Thursday   challenged President George W. Bush's plan to try terrorism   suspects including the accused September 11 mastermind, as   Democrats accused the White House of election-year   fearmongering.
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A U.N. investigator accused the United States on Friday of human rights violations in its fight against terrorism, criticizing the use of military commissions to try civilians and interrogation practices.