Snowdens German Lawyer Calls On Europeans To Prosecute US Torturers Wolfgang Kaleck said the US Senate committee report on CIA torture was giving new impetus to European resolve to hold those in positions of power responsible for the use of unacceptable interrogation techniques. “We’re preparing reams of dossiers, and demanding of prosecutors that they do the same for those who are named in the report and those known as the higher-ups who directed and conducted this system,” said Kaleck, the director of the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin. “If these people enter European territory, they need to know that they’ll run into severe trouble,” he told the Guardian. The Senate intelligence committee concluded that the CIA misled the White House, the Justice Department, Congress and the public over a torture programme, launched in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, which was both ineffective and more brutal than the agency disclosed. The 500-page report laid out a catalogue of abuse between 2002 and 2007 in which prisoners were subjected to mock executions, “rectal feeding”, sleep deprivation and other abuse. Kaleck said it was important to target the “architects” of the system. “We have to talk about command responsibility. It’s not about the rotten apples, the Lynndie Englands and agents on the ground only,” he said, referring to the former US army reservist who was one of 11 – low-ranking service people convicted over abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. (more at link) https://popularresistance.org/snowden-lawyer-calls-on-europeans-to-prosecute-us-torture/
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:29:30 +0000
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