US: No Geneva protections for non-Iraqi prisoners
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The Bush administration has decided that some non-Iraqi detainees arrested by the US forces in Iraq are not protected by the Geneva Conventions, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
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GENEVA -- The international Red Cross said Tuesday that US officials have failed to address concerns about some significant problems in the treatment of terror suspects detained at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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The United States will refuse any Italian extradition request for CIA agents indicted in the alleged abduction of an Egyptian cleric in Milan, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.
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Britain has declined to accept the return of nearly all of the former British residents held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because they have no legal right to return, The Guardian reported.
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Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell came out in opposition today to White House-sponsored legislation to create special military commissions that would try terrorist suspects, saying he rejects efforts to "redefine" a key provision of the Geneva Conventions.
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"The US admits it has no reason to hold these men, but the inaction of the international community has left them stranded. "The prolonged detention of these men is unconscionable"  A group of lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees on Friday criticized a US decision to transfer a group of former inmates to Albania. via Raw Story
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PENTAGON The Pentagon doesn&#39;t share the view of the Red Cross about the indefinite detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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The U.S. government on Wednesday rejected a U.N. report that said the use of private security guards like those involved in the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians amounted to a new form of mercenary activity.
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The United States will refuse any Italian extradition request for CIA agents indicted in the alleged abduction of an Egyptian cleric in Milan, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.Comment
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The United States will not meet any request by Italy to extradite 26 Americans, most thought to be CIA agents, to stand trial over the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric, the State Department's legal adviser said on Wednesday.
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The United Nations has refused a US request to assist Iraqi judges and prosecutors seeking to try former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants for war
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The United States is  exposing deportees to the risk of torture by accepting the word  of foreign governments that prisoners won&#39;t be tortured if sent  home, lawyers for an Egyptian detainee argued on Thursday.
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The Bush administration argued Monday that the president can detain enemy combatants at a military prison in Cuba as long as necessary to protect national security and that they have no constitutional rights to hear charges against them.
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A US army officer who ran the interrogation unit of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail avoids being imprisoned.
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UNITED NATIONS, Feb 27 (IPS) - The torture of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu  Ghraib  prison outside Baghdad and the willful abuse and humiliation of   terror suspects in the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay  have been  interpreted by human rights activists as violations of  the 1987 U.N.  Convention Against Torture.
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The Bush administration on Wednesday   said all detainees of the U.S. military would be ensured humane   treatment, but some such as al Qaeda members would have fewer   protections than other war prisoners.
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An American citizen who is under arrest in Belarus did not have diplomatic immunity, press secretary of the Belarussian Foreign Ministry Andrei Savinykh said in Minsk on Thursday.