2005-05-26 04:00:00 PST Washington -- Amnesty International said Wednesday that the United States' treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib had emboldened abusive regimes and weakened ... "The way we've treated prisoners in our custody is not only counter to our values -- it's a strategic and tactical...
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1. All prisoners shall be treated with the respect due to their inherent dignity and value as human beings. ... 3. It is, however, desirable to respect the religious beliefs and cultural precepts of the group to which prisoners belong, whenever local conditions so require.
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Transit or screening camps of a permanent kind shall be fitted out under conditions similar to those described in the present Section, and the prisoners therein shall have the same treatment as in other camps.
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They seek only, on the basis of the general consensus of contemporary thought and the essential elements of the most adequate systems of today, to set out what is generally accepted as being good principle and practice in the treatment of prisoners and the management of institutions.
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1929 - Convention Between the United States of America and Other Powers, Relating to Prisoners of War; July 27 ... 1949 - Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War; August 12...
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/geneva03.htm
Reports on Abusive Treatment of Prisoners, info about Crime and Justice Issues: Prisons: Reports on Abusive Treatment of Prisoners ... Description: Summary of prisoners' human rights issues and news.
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U.S. Treatment of Prisoners in Iraq: Selected Legal Issues; Summary; ... The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 related to the treatment of prisoners of war (POW) and civilian detainees, as well as the; Hague Regulations define the status of detainees and state responsibility for their treatment.
www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL32395.pdf
They called the Army Manual the "gold standard" for the "effective, lawful, and humane" treatment of prisoners. "Had the Manual been followed across the board, we would have been spared the pain of the prisoner abuse scandal."
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Today as in the past, the question of Treatment of Prisoners has always been an northern issue. They also used the issue of the treatment of prisoners to enflame the northern peoples to continue with the war, which had become very unpopular in the north. . ;
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e hear a lot about the prisoners in the war on terror, ... Sure, the hardcore left still equates Guantanamo with torture - against overwhelming evidence of humane treatment and limited, temporary use of techniques that are not life-threatening against only a few of the most important intelligence targets … who happen to...
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