Reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act (continued): Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, June 10, 2005U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005 - 1159 pages |
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... international law , including the universal dec- laration of human rights and the Geneva conventions , international instruments that the U.S. helped create . Amnesty vigorously con- demns terrorists attacks like the horror of 9/11 . We ...
... international law , including the universal dec- laration of human rights and the Geneva conventions , international instruments that the U.S. helped create . Amnesty vigorously con- demns terrorists attacks like the horror of 9/11 . We ...
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... INTERNATIONAL TO REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REQUESTED BY CHAIRMAN SENSENBRENNER NESTY June 15 , 2005 Hon ... law enforcement requests . Amnesty International USA and other organizations have organized joint forums across the ...
... INTERNATIONAL TO REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REQUESTED BY CHAIRMAN SENSENBRENNER NESTY June 15 , 2005 Hon ... law enforcement requests . Amnesty International USA and other organizations have organized joint forums across the ...
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... international prohibition on torture ; and whose Secretary of Defense has authorized interrogation techniques that violate international law and standards . This is an administration that has sought unchecked power throughout the " war ...
... international prohibition on torture ; and whose Secretary of Defense has authorized interrogation techniques that violate international law and standards . This is an administration that has sought unchecked power throughout the " war ...
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... law , human rights and democracy are ends in themselves . They are also essential for a world of justice ... international law . Either it is for human rights in deed as well as in word , or it will continue to be denounced as a human ...
... law , human rights and democracy are ends in themselves . They are also essential for a world of justice ... international law . Either it is for human rights in deed as well as in word , or it will continue to be denounced as a human ...
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... international human rights and humanitarian law is not a weakness in the fight against terrorism but a weapon , ensuring the widest international support for actions and avoiding situations which could provoke misplaced sympathy for ...
... international human rights and humanitarian law is not a weakness in the fight against terrorism but a weapon , ensuring the widest international support for actions and avoiding situations which could provoke misplaced sympathy for ...
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Page 390 - Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA Patriot Act) was enacted on October 26, 2001.
Page 595 - State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture. 2. For the purpose of determining whether there are such grounds, the competent authorities shall take into account all relevant considerations including, where applicable, the existence in the State concerned of a consistent pattern of gross, flagrant or mass violations of human rights.
Page 467 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Page 140 - Group and assure its responsiveness to the needs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for operations analysis.
Page 228 - Detention, Treatment and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism, 66 Fed.
Page 200 - The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
Page 38 - Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...
Page 723 - ... violence to the life, health and physical or mental well-being of persons, in particular murder as well as cruel treatment such as torture, mutilation or any form of corporal punishment...
Page 416 - It is hereby made the duty of the police department and force, at all times of day and night, and the members of such force are hereby thereunto empowered, to especially preserve the public peace, prevent crime, detect and arrest offenders, suppress riots, mobs and insurrections, disperse unlawful or dangerous assemblages, and assemblages which obstruct the free passage of public streets, sidewalks, parks and places ; protect the rights of persons and property...
Page 595 - torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent...