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Titolo: Canadian FM puts Israel, U.S. on torture watch list

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Canadian FM puts Israel, U.S. on torture watch list
By Reuters
Canada's foreign ministry has put the United States and Israel on a
watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured and also
classifies some U.S. interrogation techniques as torture, according to
a document obtained by Reuters on Thursday.
The revelation is likely to embarrass the minority Conservative
government, which is a staunch ally of both the United States and
Israel. Both nations denied they allowed torture in their jails.
The document - part of a training course on torture awareness given to
diplomats - mistakenly provided the document to Amnesty International
Canada as part of a court case the rights organization has launched
against Ottawa over the treatment of detainees in Afghanistan.
Amnesty Secretary-General Alex Neve told Reuters his group had very
clear evidence of abuse in U.S. and Israeli jails.
"It's therefore reassuring and refreshing to see that ... both of
those countries have been listed and that foreign policy
considerations didn't trump the human rights concern and keep them off
the list," he said.
Other countries on the watch list include Syria, China, Iran,
Afghanistan, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.
"If Israel is included in the list in question, the ambassador of
Israel would expect its removal," said Israeli embassy spokesman
Michael Mendel.
Under "definition of torture" the document lists U.S. interrogation
techniques such as forced nudity, isolation, sleep deprivation and
blindfolding prisoners.
"The United States does not permit, tolerate, or condone torture under
any circumstances," said a spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in Ottawa.
A spokesman for Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier tried to distance
Ottawa from the document.
"The training manual is not a policy document and does not reflect the
views or policies of this government," he said.
The document mentions the U.S. jail at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba where a
Canadian man is being held.
The man, Omar Khadr, is the only Canadian in Guantanamo. His defenders
said the document made a mockery of Ottawa's claims that Khadr was not
being mistreated.
Khadr has been in Guantanamo Bay for five years. He is accused of
killing a U.S. soldier during a clash in Afghanistan in 2002, when he
was 15.
Rights groups say Khadr should be repatriated to Canada, an idea that
Prime Minister Stephen Harper rejects on the grounds that the man
faces serious charges.
"At some point in the course of Omar Khadr's detention the Canadian
government developed the suspicion he was being tortured," said
William Kuebler, Khadr's U.S. lawyer.
"Yet it has not acted to obtain his release from Guantanamo Bay and
protect his rights, unlike every other Western country that has had
its nationals detained in Guantanamo Bay," he told CTV television.
The awareness course started after Ottawa was criticized for the way
it handled the case of Canadian Maher Arar, who was deported from the
United States to Syria in 2002.
Arar says he was tortured repeatedly during the year he spent in
Damascus prisons. An inquiry into the case revealed that Canadian
diplomats had not received any formal training into detecting whether
detainees had been abused. 

 
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vuoi vedere che è colpa di quell'antisemita rossobruno selfhater di
Giorgio Torrieri?

 watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured
com'era la storia del codice etico dell'esercito?

 com'era la storia del codice etico dell'esercito?
Non servono codici etici perche' un *PIRLA* metta uno stato in una
lista.
-Stefano