Manfred Nowak
Manfred Nowak
Manfred Nowakis an Austrian human rights lawyer, who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010. He is Scientific Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights, and a former judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina...
accept accepted access condition confident detainees invitation since spirit states united
The only condition that we did not accept was that we would have no access to detainees and I am very confident that since we accepted the invitation in the spirit of compromise, the United States will compromise,
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Fact-finding on the spot has to include interviews with detainees. What's the sense of going to a detention facility and doing fact-finding when you can't speak to the detainees? It's just nonsense.
impartial means
It only means that there is need for an impartial and independent investigation.
convincing eu
It is important that the EU (plays) its part in convincing the U.S..
feeding forced hunger level means reach ways
In forced feeding of hunger-strikers, if the accusations are true, the ways and means reach the level of torture.
admitted army army-and-navy both high officials practiced security torture
Torture is practiced systematically by the security forces, ... This was admitted by high officials of both the army and police.
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We want to have all information about secret places of detention because whenever there is a secret place of detention, there is also a higher risk that people are subjected to torture.
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We very, very carefully considered all of the arguments posed by the US government. There are no conclusions that are easily drawn. But we concluded that the situation in several areas violates international law and conventions on human rights and torture.