Rights Group Urges UN to Condemn U.S. 'Torture'

[struggle4progress]

Wed Mar 9, 2005 12:28 PM ET

GENEVA (Reuters) - A leading U.S. rights group urged the U.N.'s human rights body Wednesday to condemn Washington for the "systematic use of torture and mistreatment" of detainees the United States holds abroad.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, opening its annual session next Monday, should speak out against "disappearances, torture and other mistreatment of detainees by the United States in its global war on terror." The United States was far from being the world's worst rights abuser, but it was the most influential, and its flouting of international rules set a bad example, the body declared.

"The U.S. government's systematic use of torture and mistreatment is setting a negative example that is undermining international standards for us all," Kenneth Roth, the group's executive director, told a news conference. <snip>

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7854397

[Judi Lynn]

1. Excellent. This is wonderful news. About time, isn't it? n/t

[bemildred]

2. An excellent display of spine. nt

[grytpype]

3. Now watch for the counter attack.

"Human Rights Watch hates the troops and wants you to gay marry!"

seriously this guy is going to get a horse's head in his bed