http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/american_world/torture_policy Comments for "America’s torture policy, Aziz Huq " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/american_world/torture_policy <p>On 30 April 2004, torture became an international issue when the <em>New Yorker</em> and CBS News published images from the Abu Ghraib military prison near <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,1211872,00.html" target="_blank">Baghdad</a>. A little more than two months later, the US Supreme Court <a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/03pdf/03-334.pdf">repudiated</a> the Bush administration&#39;s argument that counter-terrorism detention operations stood beyond the rule of law (see also <a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/03pdf/03-6696.pdf">here</a>). As <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/introduction/">evidence</a> mounted that Abu Ghraib was no outlier, but a symptom of larger patterns of human-rights violations, presidential hopeful <a href="http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsCenter.ViewPressRelease&amp;Content_id=1595">Senator John McCain</a> introduced legislation to clarify and re-entrench legal barriers against abuse. A hopeful glimmering of change could be glimpsed. But did anything change? </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/american_world/torture_policy" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/american_world/torture_policy">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/american_world/torture_policy#comment north america democracy &amp; power american power &amp; the world Aziz Huq Original Copyright Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:52:04 +0100 robert.cawston@opendemocracy.net 33123 at http://www.opendemocracy.net