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| Prisoner transfers may violate law: Amnesty |
| 2010-12-15 |
| More proof, if proof were needed that Amnesty International has lost the plot. Amnesty International says Australia could be breaching international law when it hands suspected Taliban insurgents to US forces and Afghan authorities. The Federal Government has confirmed it will continue to hand low-risk detainees to the Afghan government, while transferring high-risk prisoners to the US. It says it will monitor the detainees to make sure they are treated appropriately. But Amnesty's Asia Pacific director, Sam Zarifi, says the US continues to deny some prisoners fair process. He says the Afghan government is accused of torturing detainees. "In Afghanistan abuse by the National Directorate of Security is a virtual certainty, and the American system - every day it operates is essentially a violation of international law," he said. "The system punishes the innocent and fails to appropriately provide accountability for those who have done bad things. "Unfortunately with this decision Australia has bought into this failed system." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 "Fair process" sounds good to me. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-12-15 23:00 |
| #2 Yeah, I don't think he's considered the alternatives... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-12-15 22:15 |
| #1 Sam, you do not want to know what is "fair process" for armed civilians captured on the battlefield. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2010-12-15 16:51 |