US 'lets torture flourish'

"The United States has failed to eradicate torture and ill-treatment of prisoners in its war on terrorism despite the international outcry over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and abusive behaviour at other US detention facilities, and is even allowing such practices to flourish, Amnesty International charged.

"The London-based human rights organisation made its criticism in a report to the UN Committee against Torture, which will start meeting in Geneva this week to consider American compliance with the United Nations convention against torture and other cruel forms of punishment.

"'Although the US government continues to assert its condemnation of torture and ill treatment, these statements contradict what is happening in practice,' said Curt Goering, senior deputy executive director of Amnesty International USA ..."
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