Human Rights Watch today released a 46 page report that documents British "complicity" in the torture of "five UK citizens of Pakistani origin ..."Read the report here.
Read the Guardian cover article entitled 'Cruel, illegal, immoral': Human Rights Watch condemns UK's role in torture here.
Also, Eric Walberg in an article entitled Canada’s Guantanamo reports that:
Canada’s chief diplomat in Kandahar in 2006-07, Richard Colvin, who told a House of Commons committee on Afghanistan that Afghans arrested by Canadian military and handed over to Afghan authorities were knowingly tortured.Read the rest of the article here.
Mmmmmm ... so much for the link between western-style democracy and the respect for human rights.
Onward!
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