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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Boyle, Francis A <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 01, 2018 8:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> sectns.aals@lists.aals.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> UN's Call for Torture at Guantanamo Bay to Cease Lacks Power - Analysts - Sputnik International<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://sputniknews.com/us/201803021062139709-usa-un-guantanamo-international-law/">https://sputniknews.com/us/201803021062139709-usa-un-guantanamo-international-law/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A United Nations human rights group’s condemnation of the continued US illegal detention and torture of Ammar al-Baluchi has no mandatory power, but will
aid the efforts of US lawyers to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center, analysts told Sputnik.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">The United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has released its opinions reached at a meeting in November on the illegal detention
and torture of Baluchi.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",serif;color:#333333">"The Working Group considers that … the appropriate remedy would be to release Mr. al Baluchi immediately and accord him an enforceable right to compensation and other
reparations, such as appropriate physical and psychological rehabilitation," the WGAD assessment said.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">US Unlikely to Heed Latest UN Human Rights Call</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">The US government was unlikely to pay any attention to the conclusion of the UN human rights working group, University of Illinois Professor of International Law Francis
Boyle cautioned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",serif;color:#333333">"I doubt very seriously this opinion will make any difference to the US ‘Department of War’ [Department of Defense] and the Trump administration," Boyle said.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><img border="0" width="705" height="375" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D3B19F.C2855230" alt="A hooded demonstrator is seen at a protest calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in front of the White House on May 18, 2013 in Washington, DC."></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;background:#F7961D"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white;text-transform:uppercase">© AFP 2018/ Mandel Ngan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background:#F7961D"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://sputniknews.com/us/201802031061318669-usa-guantanamo-protests-closure/"><span style="color:black">'Guantanamo
Be Closed': Anti-War Groups to Hold Massive Rallies in US</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">However, the UN body’s statement would still have political significance for the ongoing struggle by human rights activists
within the United States to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Boyle pointed out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">"It will be of use to American lawyers in their continuing attempt to dismantle the Gitmo Concentration Camp and the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Not only was the detention and torture of Baluchi illegal, but it was only part of a long process of actions by successive US administrations that had ignored international
law since President George W. Bush first approved the base’s use as a detention facility in January 2002, Boyle recalled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",serif;color:#333333">"By operating its Guantanamo concentration camp the United States government has always been in gross violation of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, including therein its
Kangaroo Courts. Violation of the Geneva Conventions is a war crime," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">War crimes had been committed at
<a href="https://sputniknews.com/us/201802011061245120-usa-guantanamo-facility-critics-trump/">
<span style="color:#F7961D">Guantanamo Bay</span></a> on an ongoing and systematic basis, Boyle pointed out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><img border="0" width="705" height="375" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D3B19F.C2855230" alt="This photo reviewed by the US military and made during an escorted visit shows a US naval medic explaining the feeding chair procedures at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 9, 2014."></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;background:#F7961D"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white;text-transform:uppercase">© AFP 2018/ Mladen Antonov<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background:#F7961D"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://sputniknews.com/us/201803011062101167-un-usa-guantanamo-detention-rights/"><span style="color:black">UN
Warnings Over Human Rights Violations at Gitmo Remain Disregarded - Analysts</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">"In the case of Guantanamo and its Kangaroo Courts, where the war crimes have been both widespread and systematic, this
constitutes a crime against humanity under international criminal law," Boyle said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">By operating the Guantanamo facility as it had over the past 17 years, the US government had also contravened two major international legal commitments it had signed,
Boyle also observed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">"By means of its Gitmo concentration camp and Kangaroo Courts, the US has grossly violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, both of which [it] is a contracting party to," Boyle said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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