UN panel raps US record on torture--
From Associated Press
November 28, 2014 8:50 AM EST
GENEVA (AP) — A U.N.
panel has concluded that the United States falls short of full compliance with
an international anti-torture treaty.
The report by the U.N.
Committee Against Torture cites police brutality, military interrogations,
maximum security prisons, illegal migrants and solitary confinement among areas
of concern.
Alessio Bruni of Italy,
one of the panel's chief investigators, told reporters Friday in Geneva
"there are numerous areas in which certain things should be changed for
the United States to comply fully." The U.N. Convention Against Torture
took effect in 1987, and the United States ratified it in 1994.
The U.N. committee's 10
independent experts are responsible for reviewing the records of all 156 U.N.
member countries that have ratified the treaty against torture and all
"cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
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