| Submit your comments on this article |
| International-UN-NGOs |
| U.N. Expert Seeks Afghan Inmates' Release |
| 2004-08-24 |
| EFL A U.N. human rights expert called for the immediate release of an estimated 725 Taliban fighters taken prisoner in Afghanistan in 2001 and access to hundreds of other detainees held by U.S. forces. Let my people free so that they can mistreat the populace. The former Taliban combatants — including an estimated 350 Pakistanis — are being held in "inhuman" conditions, and Afghan government officials agree there is no legal basis to continue their imprisonment, Cherif Bassiouni told a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to a transcript released here on Monday. While the United States says it has never put a hold on their release, he said, "there are allegations that the U.S. authorities ask that they continue to be kept in detention." Bassiouni, a law professor at DePaul University in Chicago who is the U.N.'s independent expert on human rights in Afghanistan, talked to reporters Saturday at the end of an eight-day trip to Afghanistan. He said he would be formally reporting to the U.N. General Assembly on Afghanistan's human rights situation in October... I would not be surprised to discover that Bassiouni has connections to Ramsey Clark. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #3 Release them ... to Dostum. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-08-24 9:18:22 AM |
| #2 Email: cbassiou@depaul.edu It was right there in your link. Let us know how you make out. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-08-24 8:31:39 AM |
| #1 Cherif Bassiouni This guy is a major pinhead. He has written at least 44 books. He claims "The term crimes against humanity has come to mean anything atrocious committed on a large scale…" He also is pushing for "weapons control" I can't find his email address or he would get a nice vulgar email from me thanking him for his treason. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-08-24 8:03:13 AM |