A good report by Human Rights Watch on toture and ill treatment on detainees under the Bush administration just came out, naming and establishing the responsibility of high-ranked officials in the commission of what ammounts to war crime .
We shall like to highlight the appendix, focusing on legal proceedings in foreign countries regarding US detainees treatment (France, Germany, Spain...) and remind everyone that an Spanish Journalist, Jose Couso, was killed by US troops in Baghdad in April 8th 2003;US authorities blocked all attempts by Spanish judicial authorities to investigate his death
Here is the
slightly reduced press release and access to the report:
The Bush Administration and Mistreatment
of Detainee
The report, Getting
away with torture, presents substantial information warranting
criminal investigations of Bush and senior administration officials,
including former Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld, and CIA Director George Tenet, for ordering practices such as
“waterboarding,” the use of secret CIA prisons, and the transfer of
detainees to countries where they were tortured.
