NBC reports that “The United Nations Committee Against Torture released a report Friday that deeply criticized the U.S.”
Patrick Martin summaries:
The … report today assess[ed] the performance of the 156 countries whose governments have ratified the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which took effect two decades ago.
The report subjected a major country to a wide-ranging critique, indicting it for a long list of human rights violations including:
- Refusal to prosecute officials who engage in or sanction torture of prisoners
- Detaining prisoners indefinitely without trial or other judicial proceeding, or any hope of release
- Kidnapping individuals overseas and torturing them in secret prisons