U.S. Detention and Interrogation Policies Must Be ‘Rooted in the Rule of Law – Not in Loophole Lawyering’
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee today Human Rights First
Executive Director Elisa Massimino outlined concrete steps that the United States must take in two key areas:
enforcing legal prohibitions on torture and other cruel and inhuman treatment ofprisoners; and
abandoning the failed experiment at Guantanamo in favor of the proven
effectiveness of our federal criminal courts.
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