UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Calls for Prosecution of Bush on Torture

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United Nations.- A top UN official is urging the new administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to prosecute former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, told a German television network that Bush and Cheney should be brought to trial for the torture of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.

Manfred Nowak says prosecution is legally required, because the U.S. has ratified the UN convention on torture. Last month, a bipartisan Senate report accused Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials of direct responsibility for abuse and torture at Guantánamo and other U.S. prisons.

http://www.periodico26.cu/english/news_world/jan2009/bush-torture012209.html

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1. Me, too!

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2. .prosecution is legally required, because the U.S. has ratified the UN convention on torture.

. . . says Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

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