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Article: US accused of hypocrisy on human rights Washington State Department reveals double standards in annual global assessment of government treatment of citizens
- Article from:
- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 6, 2003
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The US State Department released its latest global report on human
rights last week, inviting some ironic comment since the United
States can now easily be perceived to have broken its own guidelines
about the physical mistreatment of prisoners and suspension of
judicial due process.
"Stress and duress" interrogation techniques - condemned by the
State Department as a form of torture when practised by others -
secret detentions, closed hearings and lack of access to lawyers or
the courts have all been features of the Bush administration's "war
on terror".
While the report makes no mention of al-Qa'ida suspects killed in
US custody in Afghanistan or so-called "enemy combatants" being held ...