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He may have been the source of much evil, but he had no official authority to order torture,
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives’ Unhinged Attacks on Nancy Pelosi 2009
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You mean like the Obama Administration is ignoring law against torture? waterboarding, also defined by law as torture,
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Whereas over the past years we have campaigned about the illegality of this war and the need to prosecute the high-level civilian and military officials who put in place the torture,
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As a party to the UN Convention Against Torture, the U.S. is obligated to investigate and prosecute U.S. citizens that are believed to have engaged in torture,
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Whereas we as citizens of the United States do not accept the damage to our country's honor committed by these persons, the threats to the lives and well-being of our children and fellow citizens sent to illegal wars, and the transformation of our country from a beacon of liberty to a beacon of torture,
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Chairwoman of the UN's sub-committee on the prevention of torture,
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Moroccan authorities in 2007 found cause to prosecute 17 members of the security services for human rights violations including torture,
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Mugabe's government has used methods against critics that range from intimidation, threats and harassment to physical attacks and torture,
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They did it with the Military Commissions Act that seeks to retroactively legalize torture,
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In addition, there had been more than 5,400 cases of torture,
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