{"id":193083,"date":"2009-01-21T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/21\/un-rapporteur-says-obama-bound-by-international-law-to-prosecute\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T23:51:00","slug":"un-rapporteur-says-obama-bound-by-international-law-to-prosecute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/21\/un-rapporteur-says-obama-bound-by-international-law-to-prosecute\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Rapporteur Says Obama Bound by International Law to Prosecute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the ever reliable <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2009\/01\/hbc-90004250\">Scott Horton (Harper&#8217;s Magazine)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In an interview on Tuesday evening with the German television program \u201cFrontal 21,\u201d on channel ZDF Professor Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Rapporteur responsible for torture, stated that with George W. Bush\u2019s head of state immunity now terminated, the new government of Barack Obama was obligated by international law to commence a criminal investigation into Bush\u2019s torture practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evidence is sitting on the table,\u201d he stated. \u201cThere is no avoiding the fact that this was torture.\u201d He pointed to the U.S. undertakings under the Convention Against Torture in which the country committed that it would criminally prosecute anyone who tortured, or extradite the person to a state that would prosecute him. \u201cThe government of the United States is required to take all necessary steps to bring George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld before a court,\u201d Nowak said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wanna see them in the Hague, because I think that you will have too many people willing to be a mole in the jury in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Figure 20%+ dead-enders, that&#8217;s two per jury, and, because it&#8217;s going to be a long and complex trial, people who aren&#8217;t die hard Bush supporters won&#8217;t want to sit on the jury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the ever reliable Scott Horton (Harper&#8217;s Magazine) In an interview on Tuesday evening with the German television program \u201cFrontal 21,\u201d on channel ZDF Professor Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Rapporteur responsible for torture, stated that with George W. Bush\u2019s head of state immunity now terminated, the new government of Barack Obama was obligated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}