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Monday, April 20, 2009

UN Official: US Must Prosecute Torturers



President Barack Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA agents who used torture tactics violates international law, a UN expert says. "The United States, like all other states that are part of the UN convention against torture, is committed to conducting criminal investigations of torture and to bringing all persons against whom there is sound evidence to court," said Manfred Nowak, the UN's special rapporteur on torture.


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