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NEWS ABOUT: Geneva Convention

Geneva Convention stories: 16 news summaries
OPINION

 It's Time to Shoot Some Pirates 


Apr 13, 09 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Captain Richard Phillips has been rescued, and that’s good news. “But it remains a scandal that Somali pirates continue to routinely defeat the world’s naval powers,” writes Fred Iklé in the Washington Post. The pirates are surely funneling money to terrorists, Iklé surmises, and our... More »

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Somalia • terrorism • terrorist • international law • Geneva Convention • pirates

Gitmo Meets Geneva Rules: Pentagon Report

Study urges changes in rules for 'most troublesome' detainees

Feb 21, 09 8:54 AM CST
(Newser) - A Pentagon report conducted for President Obama asserts that Gitmo treats its prisoners humanely and in accordance with the Geneva Convention, reports the Los Angeles Times. The report does, however, call for some reforms, such as giving the most dangerous inmates more contact with other prisoners and opportunities for prayer.... More »

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Pentagon • human rights • Guantanamo Bay • Department of Defense • detainee • Geneva Convention • Obama administration • report • President Obama

analysis

 Gitmo Was Actually Humane 
 —Until Rumsfeld Took Over 

Camp's ills began when Rumsfeld weighed in

Jan 25, 09 12:12 PM CST
(Newser) - If Guantanamo Bay has become a symbol of torture, a place where prisoners' screams echo in our national psyche, it wasn’t always so, writes Karen Greenberg in the Washington Post. Though told the Geneva Conventions wouldn't technically apply, the military officials who set up the camp skirted Bush administration... More »

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Donald Rumsfeld • US military • Guantanamo Bay • treatment • Geneva Convention • Guantanamo prisoners • detainees

Red Cross
Cries Foul
Over Colombia Deception

Objects to symbol use in hostage rescue

Aug 6, 08 3:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Red Cross chided the Colombian government today for its "deliberate misuse" of the Red Cross symbol during a mission to rescue hostages, the BBC reports. “If authenticated, these images would clearly establish an improper use of the Red Cross emblem, which we deplore,” a spokesman said... More »

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Colombia • Geneva Convention • International Committee of the Red Cross • FARC • Alvaro Uribe

US Afghan Prison Dwarfs Gitmo

Plans to transfer prisoners falls short

Jan 7, 08 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Guantanamo Bay may get all the press, but Bagram, the US detention center in Afghanistan, holds over twice as many prisoners, and it’s proving just as difficult to close. Plans to transfer its roughly 630 inmates to a US-funded Afghan prison outside Kabul have failed, the New York ... More »

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Afghanistan • Bagram Air Force Base • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Geneva Convention • Red Cross

OPINION

2007's Biggest White House Whoppers

Slate runs down the Bush team's most dubious legal claims

Jan 1, 08 4:10 PM CST
(Newser) - In her second annual roundup of the Bush administration's most egregious legal arguments, Dahlia Lithwick of Slate offers her top 10 doozies:
  1. The United States does not torture
  2. State-secrets privilege used to shield almost anything.
  3. Almost anything Alberto Gonzales said.
  4. The nine US attorneys were fired for
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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • Sara Taylor • executive privilege • Lewis Scooter Libby • US attorney firings • Geneva Convention • George W. Bush

House Passes Ban on CIA Waterboarding

Interrogations must meet Geneva  standards under bill

Dec 13, 07 3:20 PM CST
(Newser) - The House of Representatives today approved a bill that would forbid the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods, including waterboarding, Reuters reports. The measure follows revelations that the agency destroyed tapes showing al Qaeda suspects subjected to simulated drowning. But the bill still has to pass the Senate, and has... More »

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Congress • CIA • torture • Geneva Convention • waterboarding • Abu Zubaydah • CIA videotapes

McCain Updates Waterboard Dig
at Romney

Says that US hanged Japanese who did it to Americans in WWII

Nov 29, 07 2:39 PM CST
(Newser) - John McCain today extended his angry response to Mitt Romney’s cagey comments on torture in last night’s debate, reminding Americans that the US hanged members of the Japanese military for waterboarding Americans in WWII. “There should be little doubt that we consider that as torture,” McCain... More »

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Mitt Romney • John McCain • POW • Geneva Convention • waterboarding

What's Torture? Don't Ask a
Med Student

25% would inject saline in detainee who thinks it's lethal, says study

Oct 27, 07 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many medical students don't know the Geneva conventions enough to identify torture techniques, Time reports. More than a third say it's okay to threaten removal of a prisoner's food or water, and more than 25% would inject a saline solution into a detainee who believes it's lethal. A recent study... More »

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torture • Guantanamo Bay • prisoners • Geneva Convention

Noriega Dodges French Trial in Miami Stir

Dictator's fight against extradition delays release date

Sep 10, 07 3:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eleventh-hour appeals of his extradition to France kept former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega in his Miami prison cell yesterday, his scheduled release date. The dictator was set to face French money-laundering charges, but his lawyers argued that the Geneva Convention prevents his extradition because Paris doesn't recognize his prisoner-of-war status. More »

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prison • France • Panama • Miami • drug trafficking • money laundering • dictatorship • Geneva Convention • extradition • Manuel Noriega • prisoner of war

It's Bon Voyage for Noriega

Judge OKs France's extradition request for former dictator; he'll serve jail term there

Aug 28, 07 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega will be extradited to France to serve ten more years of jail time. Noriega has done 18 years in a Miami prison, and will be released for good behavior next month. He faces money laundering charges in France, but had asked to return to... More »

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France • POW • Panama • money laundering • jail • Geneva Convention • extradition • Manuel Noriega • prisoner of war

Judge Allows Noriega Extradition

Ex-general wants to dodge French charges by returning to Panama

Aug 24, 07 5:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - A federal judge today rejected former dictator Manuel Noriega's request to return to Panama following his release from a Miami prison next month, the Miami Herald reports. Noriega sought to avoid extradition to France, where he faces a 10-year sentence for a conviction in abstentia on money laundering charges. Noriega... More »

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France • POW • Panama • prisoners • Geneva Convention • extradition • Manuel Noriega • prisoner of war

Bush OKs New Interrogation Guidelines

CIA program will continue with "enhanced" methods

Jul 21, 07 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush set broad new limits for questioning of CIA terror detainees yesterday, the Washington Post reports. The new regulations for "enhanced" interrogations—used to press suspects by means not allowed in US military custody—are an attempt at partial compliance with the Geneva Conventions. More »

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CIA • torture • human rights • Guantanamo Bay • Geneva Convention • George W. Bush

CIA Helped Devise Torture Tactics

Agency believed to have teamed up with  Pentagon

Jun 21, 07 6:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - The CIA apparently colluded with the US military to develop torture techniques for interrogating terrorist suspects, Salon reports. The program was based on methods originally designed to teach American special forces how to withstand abuse if captured. While the military's role in this "reverse engineering" had been previously exposed,... More »

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CIA • Pentagon • torture • Abu Ghraib • prison • POW • US military • detainee • terrorist • Geneva Convention

(Newser) - Shortly after the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq became public Major General Antonio M. Taguba was tasked by the Army with investigating and reporting on the situation. He found "Numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several detainees . . . systemic and... More »

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Abu Ghraib • investigation • Antonio Taguba • abuse • prisoners • US Army • international law • Geneva Convention

Prisoner Sheds Harsh Light on "Black Sites"

Testimony undercuts Bush claims about CIA secret facilities for terror suspects

Mar 6, 07 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Details about "black sites"--the network of secret internment facilities for terror suspects the CIA ran until last summer—are emerging as former prisoners tell their stories. The Washington Post interviews Marwan Jabour, an accused al-Qaeda paymaster who spent 28 months in two facilities—where he was drugged, burned,... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • rendition • torture • human rights • terrorist • black sites • internment • Marwan Jabour • Geneva Convention

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