聯合國調查員起訴中情局在布什時代犯下反人權罪

　　聯合國調查員要求美國公開在布什任期內關于中情局侵犯人權的機密文件，并希望起訴相關政府官員。

　　聯合國促進和保護人權專門委員會的特別報告人 Ben Emmerson指出，這些機密文件中保護了那些嚴重侵犯人權的人員名單。

　　被中情局羈留人員被關在世界各地的秘密監獄里，并遭受包括水刑，剝奪睡眠以及各種審訊手段在內的殘忍酷刑，實施的這些酷刑嚴重違反了人權。被羈留者經常被秘密轉移到其他秘密監獄，即所謂的中情局“黑獄”。

　　“現在已經有明確的證據表明中情局的“黑獄”分布于立陶宛、摩洛哥、波蘭、羅姆尼亞和泰國，另外至少有49個國家允許本國飛機和飛機場作為中情局“非常規引渡”的引渡航班，”Emmerson進一步描述了在未經受到犯罪指控，未經過引渡程序或者獲得律師幫助的情況下，恐怖嫌疑分子卻經常被扣押。

　　附原文 http://rt.com/usa/un-crime-cia-bush-804/

　　UN demands prosecution of Bush-era CIA crimes

　　Published time: March 04, 2013 21:31

　　A United Nations investigator has demanded that the US publish classified documents regarding the CIA’s human rights violations under former President George W. Bush, with hopes that the documents will lead to the prosecution of public officials.

　　Documents about the CIA’s program of rendition and secret detention of suspected terrorists have remained classified, even though President Obama’s administration has publicly condemned the use of these “enhanced interrogation techniques”. The US has not prosecuted any of its agents for human rights violations.

　　UN investigator Ben Emmerson, the UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, said that the classified documents protect the names of individuals who are responsible for serious human rights violations.

　　“Despite this clear repudiation of the unlawful actions carried out by the Bush-era CIA, many of the facts remain classified, and no public official has so far been brought to justice in the United States,” Emmerson said in a report to the UN Human Rights Council, according to Reuters.

　　Kept in secret prisons around the world, the CIA’s detainees were subjected to torture including waterboarding, sleep deprivation and various other interrogation techniques that violate human rights. The detainees were often subjected to clandestine transfers to secret prisons known as CIA ‘black sites’.

　　“There is now credible evidence to show that CIA ‘black sites’ were located on the territory of Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Romania and Thailand, and that the officials of at least 49 other states allowed their airspace or airports to be used for rendition flights,” Emmerson said, describing how suspected terrorists were often detained without being charged for any crimes, receiving extradition procedures or having access to lawyers.

　　Emmerson has urged the US to prosecute any public official who was involved in setting up the CIA "black sites" at which human rights or legal violations occurred. Even though the Obama administration has condemned those who promoted the use of such facilities for inhumane procedures, the administration has taken no steps to punish any of its public officials. Attorney General Eric Holder has said that the Justice Department would not take legal actions against those who "acted in good faith" and followed the guidelines provided by the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush era.

　　But without names and details about the involvement of US officials at CIA black sites, the government is maintaining a level of secrecy and “perpetuating impunity for the public officials implicated in these crimes,” Emmerson said. A Senate committee led by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) previously investigated the CIA’s interrogation program and may have had complete access to classified information about it.

　　Emmerson has called for this information to be published “without delay, and to the fullest extent possible.”

　　While the UN special rapporteur lacks the power to force the Obama administration to release this information, his report puts further pressure on the US government to expose a practice it publicly condemns, but continues to keep secret.

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