"President George W. Bush on behalf of persons tortured in US detention camps, invoking the universal jurisdiction doctrine. Bush cancelled his trip to Switzerland after news of the planned prosecution came to light. Bush has traveled to Canada but the Canadian government shut down the prosecution in advance of his arrest. The Center has filed a grievance with the United Nations for Canada's failure to invoke universal jurisdiction to enforce the Convention Against Torture, a petition on which action is pending. On 14 February 2002, the International Court of Justice in the ""ICJ Arrest Warrant Case"" concluded that state officials"
"Constitutional Rights tried first in Switzerland and then in Canada to prosecute former President George Bush, on behalf of four tortured detainees. Bush cancelled his trip to Switzerland after news of the planned prosecution came to light. Bush has traveled to Canada but the Canadian government shut down the prosecution in advance of his arrest. The Center has filed a grievance with the United Nations for Canada's failure to enforce the Convention Against Torture, on which action is pending. Without any prosecutions the possibility remains that a future presidential administration could claim torture is legal and revive its practice. In"
"former US President George H. W. Bush called upon the British government to release Pinochet. They urged that Pinochet be allowed to return to his homeland rather than be forced to go to Spain. On the other hand, United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, Mary Robinson, hailed the Lords' ruling, declaring that it was a clear endorsement that torture is an international crime subject to universal jurisdiction. Furthermore, Amnesty International and the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture demanded his extradition to Spain. Finally, in protest against Spain's action, Chile withdrew for a time its ambassador"
"Romania and Poland. The report defines extraordinary renditions as instances where ""an individual suspected of involvement in terrorism is illegally abducted, arrested and/or transferred into the custody of US officials and/or transported to another country for interrogation which, in the majority of cases involves incommunicado detention and torture"".UK officials have further denied any claims and many investing officials agree to it that UK was not involved in the detention and torture or about hosting prisons. UK might have been a transit state but there is no proof about this either. On January 22, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama signed an"
"have"". Poland and Romania received the most direct accusals, as the report claims the evidence for these sites is ""strong"". The report cites airports in Timişoara, Romania, and Szymany, Poland, as ""detainee transfer/drop-off point[s]"". Eight airports outside Europe are also cited. On May 19, 2006, the United Nations Committee Against Torture (the U.N. body that monitors compliance with the UN Convention Against Torture) recommended that the United States cease holding detainees in secret prisons and stop the practice of rendering prisoners to countries where they are likely to be tortured. The decision was made in Geneva following two days of"
"during a European trip in June 2015 that the U.S. should ""consider putting troops"" in Poland, the Baltic states, and nearby countries. Bush also proposed expanding U.S. military exercises in the region. Bush has not offered a ""detailed plan for ending the presence of Russian-backed troops in Ukraine."" When asked in June 2015 on the use of torture by the United States, Bush stated ""I don't think that's necessary. Because I don't think we need it, it's not the law."" When pressed on whether that position applied after the September 11 attacks, Bush stated: ""I think it was appropriate at"
"the fugitive Roman Polanski, who fled the United States in 1977. Swiss police claimed it was a routine arrest, although some politicians claimed it was motivated by Swiss worries over new US policy on tax evasion in Switzerland may have prompted them to act over-energetically. An extradition request was filed by the US government on October 23. Ties with Turkey were strained under the George W. Bush administration, in part due to Turkish military operations into northern Iraq in 2008. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the country on March 7, 2009, in a bid to renew good relations. President"
"as a mock execution during his torture by the CIA. A power drill and a handgun were used. In May 2011, al-Nashiri's lawyers filed a case against Poland with the European Court of Human Rights. They said that Al-Nashiri was held and allegedly tortured in a secret CIA ""black site"" prison ""north of Warsaw"" (OSAW) from December 2002 to June 2003 with the collaboration or consent of the Polish government. On January 29, 2009, an order from US president Obama's administration to suspend all Guantanamo military commission hearings for 120 days was overruled by military judge Army Colonel James Pohl"
"under the Bush administration ""unsigned"" the treaty that had conferred on the International Criminal Court jurisdiction over Americans. In addition, President Bush signed the 2002 American Service-Members' Protection Act allowing military invasion of The Hague to rescue any Americans the court might detain for war crimes trials. Some torture occurred in CIA black site prisons in countries that remain parties to the treaty, like Poland, Afghanistan, Lithuania, and Romania. But for political reasons those countries are not in a position to initiate a prosecution, nor to extradite US officials to face charges. Invoking the universal jurisdiction doctrine, the Center for"
"U.S. President George W. Bush on August 2, 2002. ASPA authorizes the U.S. president to use ""all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court."" This authorization has led the act to be nicknamed the ""Hague Invasion Act"", because the freeing of U.S. citizens by force might be possible only through an invasion of The Hague, Netherlands, the seat of several international criminal courts and of the Dutch government. The act prohibits federal, state and local"
"that detainees are held incommunicado for up to 5 days allows abuses to take place, and advised the Spanish government to make changes to this practice. In 2012 CAT ruled against Spain again, this time for not investigating accusations of torture made by Oskarz Gallastegi, who had been sentenced to 26 years in jail for his role in the murder of a judge in the Basque Country in 2001, In 2010 the ECtHR in Strasbourg made its first ruling against Spain for not investigating properly allegations of torture made by ETA member Mikel San Argimiro. In 2014 the ECtHR criticised"
"1998 under an international arrest warrant issued by judge Baltasar Garzón of Spain, and was placed under house arrest: initially in the clinic where he had just undergone back surgery, and later in a rented house. The charges included 94 counts of torture of Spanish citizens, the 1975 assassination of Spanish diplomat Carmelo Soria, and one count of conspiracy to commit torture—allegations of abuses had been made numerous times before his arrest, including since the beginning of his rule, but never acted upon. Still struggling with the conditions set by the difficult transition to democracy, the Chilean government of the"
"for the detention, torture, and killing of Spanish-Chilean citizen Carmelo Soria on July 14, 1976. In 2011, an investigation was launched into the death of Pablo Neruda, partially on the strength of a statement from his driver that he was injected with a poison by a Dr. Price. Price's description matched that of Townley, and police examined this link while Neruda's body was exhumed and tested for possible toxins. On 8 November 2013, the test results were released, with head of Chile's medical legal service Patricio Bustos stating that ""No relevant chemical substances have been found that could be linked"
"connected the covert operative to a specific operation. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison on January 25, 2013. On July 24, 2014, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Poland violated the European Convention on Human Rights when it cooperated with the US, allowing the CIA to hold and torture Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri on its territory in 2002–2003. The court ordered the Polish government to pay each of the men 100,000 euros in damages. It also awarded Abu Zubaydah 30,000 euros to cover his costs. On 31 May 2018, the ECHR ruled that Romania"
"February 14, 2007, by a majority of the European Parliament (382 MEPs voting in favor, 256 against and 74 abstaining) stated the CIA operated 1,245 flights and that it was not possible to contradict evidence or suggestions that secret detention centers where prisoners have been tortured were operated in Poland and Romania. After denying the fact for years, Poland confirmed in 2014 that it has hosted black sites. In January 2012, Poland's Prosecutor General's office initiated investigative proceedings against Zbigniew Siemiątkowski, the former Polish intelligence chief. Siemiątkowski is charged with facilitating the alleged CIA detention operation in Poland, where foreign"
"Toni Brunner. Baettig played a role in successfully blocking a visit by former U.S. President George W. Bush to the country in February 2011, lobbying the federal prosecutor's office to have him arrested stemming from war crimes charges. Later that year, he filed another interpellation to have former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger detained if he attended the Bilderberg Conference in the country in June. The Young SVP organized a conference in protest along with the Young Socialists. Baettig said the 2011 Bilderberg conference, of which Kissinger attended, violated the principles of Swiss sovereignty. Baettig approached the gates of"
"on occasion torture by proxy. The administration of President George W. Bush rendered hundreds of illegal combatants for US detention, and transported detainees to US controlled sites as part of an extensive interrogation program that included torture. Extraordinary rendition continued under the Obama administration; with targets being interrogated and subsequently taken to the US for trial. The United Nations considers one nation abducting the citizens of another a crime against humanity. In July 2014 the European Court of Human Rights condemned the government of Poland for participating in CIA extraordinary rendition, ordering Poland to pay restitution to men who had"
"a crime of international law, and meanwhile, the victims of torture remain defenseless."" In the same report Amnesty International says that successive Spanish governments ""have not established sufficient measures and mechanisms necessary to prevent torture taking place while in the custody of its security forces, e.g. the suspension of the incommunicado regime, which remains in place, or the introduction of CCTV in all the places where detainees are held, nor have they implemented provisions leading to thorough, independent and impartial investigation of torture when it takes place."" In January 2018, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Spain for"
"Europe members), and rendered to other countries, often after having transited through secret detention centres (""black sites"") used by the CIA, some located in Europe. According to the separate European Parliament report of February 2007, the CIA has conducted 1,245 flights, many of them to destinations where suspects could face torture, in violation of article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture. In November 2005, ""El País"" reported that CIA planes had landed in the Canary Islands and in Palma de Mallorca. A state prosecutor opened up an investigation concerning these landings which, according to Madrid, were made without"
"Gaza since the territory was sealed off by the Israeli army at the end of 2007. In April 2011, Westerwelle summoned China's ambassador to Germany, Wu Hongbo, for a meeting about detained Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei, calling for his release and denouncing China's growing use of extrajudicial detentions against dissidents. In September 2012, Westerwelle joined his Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh in visiting the Zaatari refugee camp to learn more about the plight of Syrians fleeing the violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011. After the offices of both the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in St Petersburg and"
"in Spain to be put on trial for ordering wiretaps. In 2010, he assisted the Haitian government in building the case against former dictator Jean-Claude ""Baby Doc"" Duvalier, and he co-authored the HRW report ""Haiti’s Rendezvous with History: The Case of Jean-Claude Duvalier"". He is featured in a video on the case produced by Human Rights Watch. He is author of the July 2011 HRW report ""Getting Away with Torture"" which examined the impunity of former US President George W. Bush and other top officials for the widespread mistreatment of Muslim prisoners, and of the book ""Faut-il Juger George Bush?"""
"over the alleged mistreatment of Tymoshenko. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding boycotted the Euro 2012 football tournament held in Ukraine and Poland. French public figures have appealed to FIFA, the world football authority, to cancel Euro 2012. Germany has announced that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit would depend on Tymoshenko fate. Ukraine compared the threats of a football boycott by European powers as a return to Cold War tactics. The German President, Joachim Gauck canceled a visit to Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities confirmed that the presidents of Austria, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia"
"of Vilnius which operated as early as 2002. In December 2014, the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence filed a report which included torture details involving Saudi Arabian nationals Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri suspected of masterminding the bombing of the US navy guided-missile destroyer USS ""Cole"" in Yemen and Abu Zubaydah, an alleged Al Qaeda terrorist. The European tribunal said the ""two high-value prisoners"" were ""subjected to maltreatment and arbitrary incarceration at the CIA black site. Hence, the Lithuania and Romanian governments violated the Eastern Convention of Human Rights' ban on torture. Authorities in Lithuania also permitted the transport of Zubaydah"
"of which practice torture, the U.S. could also deport Posada, a terrorist, to Cuba or Venezuela. Freed from Venezuelan charges, Bosch went to the United States, assisted by US Ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich; there, he was ultimately arrested for a parole violation. On 18 July 1990, Bosch was pardoned of all American charges by President George H. W. Bush at the request of his son Jeb Bush, who later became Governor of Florida; this pardon was despite objections by the President's own defense department that Bosch was one of the most deadly terrorists working ""within the hemisphere."" Although many"
"clarification. The US has refused to confirm or deny the reports. Extraordinary rendition flights through Europe were investigated over a number of years by the European Parliament and it held a temporary committee on the matter. The EU has also opposed the use of Guantanamo Bay detention camp and offered to host some former inmates when its closure was announced by the administration of US President Barack Obama. In the United States, capital punishment is a legal form of punishment, whereas all European member states have fully abolished it and consider its use to be a violation of fundamental human"
"its airspace on 16 April, along with many neighbouring countries, preventing many leaders from making the plane trips to attend. President of the United States Barack Obama cancelled his planned attendance, speaking of his regret in a statement that blamed ""the volcanic ash that is disrupting air travel over Europe"". German Chancellor Angela Merkel was stranded somewhere between Lisbon and northern Italy, so Germany was represented by President Horst Köhler and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, who travelled to Poland in a helicopter. The Prince of Wales from the United Kingdom also cancelled his visit due to the air travel conditions."
"violating ""Article 293"" of the penal code (""organizing and taking part in a mass riot""). Atroshchankau and many others are listed as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International. Andrej Sannikaŭ was convicted of the charge of ""organizing a mass protest"" on May 14, 2011 and sentenced to five years in a high-security prison. The West generally denounced the election as fraudulent; the European Union renewed a travel ban effective January 31, 2011 – prohibiting Lukashenko and 156 of his associates from traveling to EU member countries – as a result of violent crackdowns of opposition supporters by Lukashenko's government forces"
"other nations such as Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Israel, Mexico, Colombia and Australia, which also refuse to extradite prisoners who may be condemned to death. Extradition where the death penalty is possible was ruled a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights in the case of ""Soering v United Kingdom"" outlawing the practice in member states of the Council of Europe, of which all of the European Union member states are part. In November 2007, Canada's minority Conservative government reversed a longstanding policy of automatically requesting clemency for Canadian citizens sentenced to capital punishment."
"jails are full of political prisoners. When asked about the plight of imprisoned journalist Khadija Ismayilova and human rights advocate Leyla Yunus, Mehriban did not respond. Mehriban Aliyeva visited foreign countries to attend different kinds of events and to meet with high-level foreign officials. She paid trips to France, the UK, Turkey, Greece, Italy, China, Vietnam, Russia, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Latvia, Georgia, Estonia, Switzerland, Jordan, Romania, Finland, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Egypt, Republic of Korea, Qatar, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Croatia, Poland, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan in 2004-2014. She met with First Lady of USA Laura Bush on her"
"extended the maximum period of detention for suspects from four days to 30, a move Amnesty said increased the risk of torture or other maltreatment of detainees. In a detailed research that cited torture cases across Turkey's prisons and detention centers, Stockholm Center for Freedom revealed that the torture, ill-treatment, abusive, inhuman and degrading treatment of people who are deprived of their liberties in Turkey’s detention centers and prisons after July 15, 2016 coup bid have become a norm rather than an exception under increased nationalistic euphoria and religious zealotry in the country. Turkish Justice Ministry denied the allegations and"
"(USA), Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC) (USA), and Veterans for Peace (USA). On January 7, 2011, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) asked a Spanish judge to subpoena Miller to explain his role in the torture of four former detainees. On April 2, 2015, the Court of Appeal of Paris ordered a first hearing of Miller to be conducted before a French magistrate prior to potential prosecutions. A subpoena will be addressed to Miller. On February 19, 2016, General Miller was summoned on March 1 in Paris,"
"ordered the arrest of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet, announced it would begin an investigation into whether or not Gonzales, and five other former Bush Justice and Defense officials violated international law by providing the Bush Administration a legal framework and basis for the torture of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Garzón said that it was ""highly probable"" the matter would go to court and that arrest warrants would be issued. Also named in the Spanish court's investigation are John Yoo, Douglas Feith, William Haynes II, Jay Bybee, and David Addington. In April 2010, on the advice of the Spanish Attorney"
"a country when we believe he will be tortured. Where appropriate, the United States seeks assurances that transferred persons will not be tortured. From 2001 to 2005 CIA officers captured an estimated 150 people and transported them around the world. Under the Bush administration, rendered persons were reported to have undergone torture by the receiving countries. Journalists, civil and constitutional rights groups, and former detainees have alleged that this occurred with the knowledge or cooperation of the administrations of the United States and the United Kingdom. The revelations about the US program prompted several official investigations in Europe into alleged"