Monday, February 16, 2009

Anti-terror tactics 'weaken law'

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The UK and the US have "actively undermined" international law in the way they fight terrorism, a report by judges and lawyers has said.

The International Commission of Jurists carried out a three-year global study.

Gains made in the previous century to a shared consensus on human rights have been immensely damaged over the last seven years, it concluded.


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"But Alberto Gonzales, who was my personal lawyer, told me that torture and locking up people without a day in court was legal and that the Geneva Conventions didn't apply." - Dubya being arraigned at The Hague


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