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U.N. officials: Force-feeding Guantanamo protesters violates international law
Force-feeding hunger strikers is a breach of international law, the UN’s human rights office said Wednesday, as US authorities tried to stem a protest by inmates at the controversial Guantanamo Bay jail. “If it’s perceived as torture or inhuman treatment — and it’s the case, it’s painful — then it…
UN human rights chief slams failure to shut Guantanamo
Washington is breaking international law by holding detainees indefinitely at Guantanamo and must honour a pledge to shut the controversial jail, the UN’s human rights chief said Friday. “I am deeply disappointed that the US government has not been able to close Guantanamo Bay, despite repeatedly committing itself to do…
UN official: Drone strikes threaten 50 years of international law
The US policy of using drone strikes to carry out targeted killings presents a major challenge to the system of international law that has endured since the second world war, a UN investigator has said. Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, fears that Barack…
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