Παρασκευή 3 Μαρτίου 2017

The Trump statements on torture "give me goosebumps," said the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights




The UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism warned today that US President Donald Trump may allow torture methods as technical investigations and urged prosecuted against senior officials of the government of George Ouoker Bush authorized the exercise of illegal this practice.

US officials who were responsible for the program of secret detention centers, emergency extradition and torture that the CIA operated, include "those who were in senior posts" of the Bush administration, said Ben Emerson.

"To hear the President Trump, the first days after his inauguration, with perfunctory way extols the benefits of torture as a weapon in the fight against terrorism and to confirm his personal intention to approve the use of torture if requested was enough to make me shudder, "Emerson said.

The Trump has stressed that the US Defence Secretary Jim eyes disagrees with him on the usefulness of torture as a technique of interrogation and said he would rely on the Cabinet and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Mike Pompeo, inter alia, the use of this illegal form of torture.

"If you believe that deliver results? Absolutely and I ", he stated the American president for the practice of waterboarding.

There was no immediate response from the US delegation in 47meles Human Rights Council of the United Nations, after the speech made by the official of the UN, the latter to the Council after a term of six years.

The Emerson, a British lawyer and expert on international criminal justice, said that the positions of President Trump showed "impressive anetoimotitas level governance".

A former secret CIA agent who commanded one of the "secret prisons" set up after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has been nominated as a candidate for the post of Deputy Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency.

"If one of the most powerful countries in the world, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, looks set once again to abandon our collective values, under the guise of such defense, then the only thing left to be wondered whether achieved something in the last 15 years, "Emerson said.

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