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U.N. expert faults U.S. on human rights in terror laws

By Evelyn Leopold

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – 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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  1. [...] Consistently, atrocities have been committed on behalf of the American people and in their name since late 2001.  Consistently, this has eroded our ability to affect outcomes in the world, including rifts within NATO in Afghanistan.  Consistently, we are viewed askance when we voice what is highest and best in our culture–messages of freedom, peace, human rights, universal suffrage, economic opportunity.  I’ve been listening to C-Span’s morning program, which gives an interesting review of American political thought.  Some of us have put our faith in dubious leaders.  I want to go on record: those leaders have betrayed us and compromised our principles.  They have bound us by fear to do things we would not countenance for our own people, and should not countenance for anyone.  [...]

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Daniel Graeber

Daniel Graeber is a writer for United Press International covering Iraq, Afghanistan and the broader Levant. He has published works on international and constitutional law pertaining to US terrorism cases and on child soldiers. His first major work, entitled The United States and Israel: The Implications of Alignment, is featured in the text, Strategic Interests in the Middle East: Opposition or Support for US Foreign Policy. He holds a MA in Diplomacy and International Conflict Management from Norwich University, where his focus was international relations theory, international law, and the role of non-state actors.

Areas of Focus:International law; Middle East; Government and Politics; non-state actors

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