Amnesty Frowns on US Interrogation Practices
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Posted October 27, 2004 -- A leading human rights organization has asked the next president of the United States to review Americaâs policies on interrogation, given the âtorture, cruelty and degradationâ associated with the war in Iraq.
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Governments and armed groups are deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights worldwide, Amnesty says.
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The torture of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and the treatment of those held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dealt a blow to the United States' credibility as the world's leader on human rights and the fight against terrorism, a human rights group said Thursday.
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By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Frances Williams in Geneva. The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the US of using psychological and physical pressure to interrogate prisoners at
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The Bush administration&#39;s aggressive techniques for extracting information from detainees captured in Afghanistan and Iraq sparked sharp dissent
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Violations of human rights by the US are undermining international laws, a leading rights group says.
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In its fight against terrorism, the United States has eroded rights worldwide, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
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The United States apparently violated international law in its military tribunals by using coercion to extract confessions and writing counter-terrorism laws that restrict immigration on questionable grounds, a U.N. investigator said on Friday.
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The United States has manifestly failed  to uphold obligations to reject torture and cruel, inhuman or  degrading behavior in the "war on terror" launched after Sept.  11, 2001, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
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A U.S.-based human rights group denounced on Tuesday the recent arrests of democracy activists by Syrian authorities and called for an investigation of alleged beatings during interrogations.
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The United States is riding roughshod over human rights by outsourcing key anti-terror work in Iraq to private contractors, who operate beyond Iraqi law and outside the military chain of command, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
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A June 25 report is among dozens of documents made public Tuesday that allege brutal and sometimes illegal interrogation methods employed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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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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The United States apparently  violated international law in its military tribunals by using  coercion to extract confessions and writing counter-terrorism  laws that restrict immigration on questionable grounds, a U.N.  investigator said on Friday.
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The United States is treating the globe like one giant battlefield for its war on terror, eroding rights worldwide, Amnesty International  said
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A British citizen being held at GuantÃ¡namo Bay was subjected to &quot;vindictive torture&quot; and death threats while in US custody, according to claims in a letter he wrote that has been published today.
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NEW YORK - Newly released documents regarding crimes committed by US soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a troubling pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions.