UK treatment of terror suspects 'inhuman'

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Government waits 11 months before publishing scathing condemnation by European torture watchdog on imprisonment without trial

Clare Dyer, legal editor
Friday June 10, 2005
The Guardian

Britain's detention without trial of foreign terror suspects subjected some of them to "inhuman and degrading treatment", the European watchdog on torture said in a hard-hitting report yesterday.

The Council of Europe's committee for the prevention of torture (CPT), which visited the detainees in February 2002 and March 2004, said detention without trial caused mental disorders in most of the detainees.

The conditions under which some detainees were held "could be considered as amounting to inhuman and degrading treatment".

Foreigners in Britain suspected of involvement in international terrorism were held at Belmarsh and Woodhill prisons and Broadmoor high-security hospital under legislation passed in 2001.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,1503348,00.html

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1. Britain is subject to the world court, isn't it?

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2. Holding it back for almost a year is disgusting but not...

surprising given the totally disgusting way in which Blair and his "buddies" have hidden, lied about, changed everything about Iraq, their treatment of detainees and the real situation in Iraq.

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3. They get twisted up in their lies, but at least they are held to account

Unlike *

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4. Where have they been held to account?

Blair is still out there lying in tandem with bush on all issues related to Iraq, as shown by his recent visit with bush. There has been no call to account that I have seen with regard to either Blair or bush on their lies and breaches of international law.

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5. By a lot of their own people--and by the World Court (at some point)

Hopefully. No, Blair is still getting away with stuff but there's more heat on him.

Americans are so lulled by the M$M that they can't hold anyone to account--except Michael Jackson or Scott Peterson.