UK BREACHING GENEVA CONVENTIONS BY ALLOWING RENDITIONS

From: The Sunday Herald | Date: October 16, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

EXTRAORDINARY renditions break just about every international law protecting human rights.

According to Gabor Rona, a former high-flyer at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the current international legal director of Human Rights' First, the key problem is the failure to "inventory" the captives. No record is made of their arrest or detention.

After 9/11, George Bush's lawyers classified anyone detained as part of the war on terror as an "illegal enemy combatant" - neither civilians nor prisoners of war and therefore not covered by the Geneva Conventions.

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