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Canada To Remove U.S. From Torture List, Training Manual Had Warned Diplomats That Prisoners In U.S., Guantanamo Risked Torture, Abuses
A top Canadian official apologized for a government training manual which listed the United States and Israel, two strong allies, among countries where prisoners face torture and abuse.
Israel and America stop torture thanks to Canadian pressure
This is amazing. Only two days ago Reuters reported that Canada had placed Israel and the USA on its list of countries that use torture. Well now Canada has taken both countries off the list. Israel and America must have stopped the torture. They must have done. Otherwise they'd be on the list of countries that use torture. I can't think of any other explanation.
TURNING A BLIND EYE TO TORTURE
Amnesty International has criticised a decision by Canada to rewrite a training manual that put the US and Israel on a list of nations where prisoners risk being tortured.
A top Canadian official apologized for a government training manual which listed the United States and Israel, two strong allies, among countries where prisoners face torture and abuse.
Israel and America stop torture thanks to Canadian pressure
This is amazing. Only two days ago Reuters reported that Canada had placed Israel and the USA on its list of countries that use torture. Well now Canada has taken both countries off the list. Israel and America must have stopped the torture. They must have done. Otherwise they'd be on the list of countries that use torture. I can't think of any other explanation.
TURNING A BLIND EYE TO TORTURE
Amnesty International has criticised a decision by Canada to rewrite a training manual that put the US and Israel on a list of nations where prisoners risk being tortured.
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Yes, but obviously not to the US media.
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Added: January 20, 2008 on the tube
yeah but it could have been recorded anytime. It could have been a recording from earlier in the week, or it could have been a recording of a weekend re-air...
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yes , no idea on that, we don't have msnbc here in Scandinavia, though it was a breaking story the other day, unless I´ve become senile, so decently new I hope.
I think the video was posted a day after this torture list was made public. I also believe Canada gave in to pressure from the U.S. to remove America from the torture list.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004135083_uscanada20.html
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Canada to take U.S. off torture list
By Charmaine Noronha
The Associated Press
TORONTO — Canada's foreign ministry said Saturday that, after pressure from its closest ally, it will rewrite a training manual that lists the United States as a site of possible torture.
The department document, released Friday, singled out the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay. It also names Israel, Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Syria as places where inmates could face torture.
"I regret the embarrassment caused by the public disclosure of the manual used in the department's torture-awareness training," Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier said in a statement issued Saturday.
"It contains a list that wrongly includes some of our closest allies. I have directed that the manual be reviewed and rewritten. The manual is neither a policy document nor a statement of policy. As such, it does not convey the government's views or positions," the statement added.
The document, used by Canadian diplomats, prompted a sharp response from the U.S., a key NATO ally and trading partner, which asked to be removed from the manual.
"We find it to be offensive for us to be on the same list with countries such as Iran and China. Quite frankly it's absurd," U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins said Friday. "For us to be on a list like that is just ridiculous."
An Israeli Embassy spokesman also said that the ambassador of Israel would expect his country to be removed from the list.
A Canadian citizen, 21-year-old Omar Khadr, is in custody at Guantánamo on charges that include killing a U.S. medic with a grenade during a July 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.
He has claimed in the past that he's been abused, but Canadian Foreign Affairs officials have said they accept U.S. assurances Khadr has been treated humanely. Human-rights groups believe Canada has not done enough to ensure that Khadr, who has been in custody since he was 15, is being fairly treated.
The government inadvertently released the manual to lawyers for Amnesty International who are working on a lawsuit involving alleged abuse of Afghan detainees by local Afghan authorities, after the detainees were handed over by Canadian troops.
The document offers a section on laws prohibiting torture and what diplomats should do when cases are suspected.
It cites interrogation techniques such as stripping prisoners, blindfolding and sleep deprivation
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004135083_uscanada20.html
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Canada to take U.S. off torture list
By Charmaine Noronha
The Associated Press
TORONTO — Canada's foreign ministry said Saturday that, after pressure from its closest ally, it will rewrite a training manual that lists the United States as a site of possible torture.
The department document, released Friday, singled out the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay. It also names Israel, Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Syria as places where inmates could face torture.
"I regret the embarrassment caused by the public disclosure of the manual used in the department's torture-awareness training," Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier said in a statement issued Saturday.
"It contains a list that wrongly includes some of our closest allies. I have directed that the manual be reviewed and rewritten. The manual is neither a policy document nor a statement of policy. As such, it does not convey the government's views or positions," the statement added.
The document, used by Canadian diplomats, prompted a sharp response from the U.S., a key NATO ally and trading partner, which asked to be removed from the manual.
"We find it to be offensive for us to be on the same list with countries such as Iran and China. Quite frankly it's absurd," U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins said Friday. "For us to be on a list like that is just ridiculous."
An Israeli Embassy spokesman also said that the ambassador of Israel would expect his country to be removed from the list.
A Canadian citizen, 21-year-old Omar Khadr, is in custody at Guantánamo on charges that include killing a U.S. medic with a grenade during a July 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.
He has claimed in the past that he's been abused, but Canadian Foreign Affairs officials have said they accept U.S. assurances Khadr has been treated humanely. Human-rights groups believe Canada has not done enough to ensure that Khadr, who has been in custody since he was 15, is being fairly treated.
The government inadvertently released the manual to lawyers for Amnesty International who are working on a lawsuit involving alleged abuse of Afghan detainees by local Afghan authorities, after the detainees were handed over by Canadian troops.
The document offers a section on laws prohibiting torture and what diplomats should do when cases are suspected.
It cites interrogation techniques such as stripping prisoners, blindfolding and sleep deprivation
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