ACLU Plans to Bring Torture Issue to the UN

[Robbien]

The magnitude of revelations of torture committed at Abu Ghraib and other US-run detention facilties, among other human rights problems, will be among the issues raised by a delegation sent by the 400,000-member American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to the UN Commission on Human Rights. "The delegation seeks to bring issues of torture and detention ... to the Commission’s attention," says a recent ACLU statement.

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Since the court order, the Bush administration has released about 30,000 pages, but the civil liberties organizations say that documents that seem to provide the clearest evidence of prisoner abuse have been delayed to reduce press scrutiny.

Some documents were released recently to coincide with the Easter weekend, several days after the court's deadline, in order to minimize press coverage of the contents of the documents, says the ACLU, which has taken the lead in examining and publicizing most of the Pentagon's papers.

In an effort to spin the torture scandal its way, the Pentagon also released much of the material to selected reporters with less critical opinions of the US' role in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/899/1/32/

This filing is going to put a spoke in the wheels of the machine BushCo has going against Cuba at this Human Rights Commission. And it will give more weight to the torture case CCR has against Rumsfeld.Good move I believe.