Friday 29th of March 2024

happy anniversary .....

happy anniversary .....

 

‘People should not be tortured, abused or held indefinitely without charge, whether perceived guilty or innocent. Holding anyone without charge, citizen or non-citizen, is a violation of the United States Constitution and international law.Torture is immoral, ineffective and absolutely illegal under domestic and international law.

In 2002, the Center for Constitutional Rights initiated litigation challenging the U.S. government's detention practices. In June 28, 2004, CCR was victorious in Rasul v. Bush, when the Supreme Court ruled that the detainees at Guantánamo have access to U.S. Courts to challenge their detention.Yet, the Administration has not complied.

We demand that the Bush Administration immediately: 

·                     Make public all documentation of torture & abuse.

·                     Launch an independent investigation & hold those responsible accountable.

·                     Give all detainees a hearing in U.S. courts.

·                     Stop the practice of rendition: moving detainees abroad for torture.

No Torture: Close Guantanamo

and, as for David Hicks, Lex Lasry, QC, demolishes Phillip Ruddock’s latest pathetic excuses for the Australian government’s failure to secure & protect his legal & human rights in the past 5 years, in today’s Melbourne Age …..

‘On January 7, 2007, federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock mounted a defence of the Australian Government in the case of David Hicks. The defence, in The Sunday Age, fails. It fails as much for what it does not say as for what it does.

The credibility of the Australian Government is drained by the fact that it apparently never considered that the original military commission process might have been unfair. Hicks was left to the mercy of that process.

The primary point now made by the Attorney-General is that despite that oversight and assertions to the contrary, the Australian Government has not abandoned Hicks and, in fact, does care whether or not he gets a fair trial. Further, the Government is "deeply unhappy" about the time the process has taken. For more than three years this unhappiness has had absolutely no effect.’

Negligent Or Just Ineffective

yet another david hicks .....

‘The day after tomorrow marks the confluence of two ignominious anniversaries. The first is the five-year anniversary of the opening of the notorious prison camps run by the US at the Guantánamo naval air station in Cuba. In the five years since the US started shipping prisoners from around the world to Guantánamo, approximately 99% have never been charged with any transgression, much less a crime. Approximately 400 prisoners, characterised by the Bush administration as "the worst of the worst", have been released without charge, many directly to their families. That any prisoners have been released is due almost entirely to the outrage of the civilised world.

After Five Years Of Torture, Bisher Is Slowly Slipping Into Madness