- US 'Rewriting Rules on Prisoners' (February 8, 2002)
...nternational terrorist group and cannot be considered a state party to the Geneva Convention." Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said that Mr Bush was wr... - US Plans Death Camp (May 26, 2003)
... as logical by the US, which has been attacked worldwide for breaching the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war since it established the camp at a naval base to hold... - False Hopes and Truth Serums (January 9, 2003)
...erican courts, and drugs cannot be used on prisoners-of-war under the 1950 Geneva Convention. However, the Convention Against Torture is less clear on the matter, and... - British MPs Furious at Secret US Trials of 'Terror' Britons (July 8, 2003)
...ce minister Chris Mullin yesterday all but accused the US of breaching the Geneva convention as he expressed "strong reservations" about the secretive trial. To ra... - Fighter Plane's Laser May Blind Civilians (July 24, 2002)
...rcraft, ground vehicles and anti-aircraft batteries, it is exempt from the Geneva Convention's ban on blinding weapons. The ban came into force in 1996, and was ra... - 'Unauthorized' Settlement Outposts (June 10, 2003)
... All settlements are illegal under international law. The Fourth Geneva Convention expressly prohibits an Occupying Power from deporting or transferring part... - US Occupying Iraqi Schools, Church (April 4, 2003)
...ish military headquarters or other operations in protected areas under the Geneva Convention," says Lt. Col. Gary Keck, a spokesman for the Department of Defense in Wa... - UN Resolutions Violated by Countries Other than Iraq (October 2, 2002)
...ied East Jerusalem and calls on Israel to scrupulously abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention regarding the responsibilities of occupying powers. 298 (1971) Israel ... - A20 Analysis: On Stopping Open-Ended, Permanent War (April 25, 2002)
...ns confused about extending internationally recognized treatment under the Geneva Convention. The protestors' central observation is that these actions will likely... - Israel Threatens to Deport Relatives of 2 Fugitive Militants (July 20, 2002)
...moral blight on the State of Israel" and that the policy would violate the Geneva Convention against both collective punishment and deportation. "One of the most fu... - Guantanamo Issue Took Two Years to Reach UN Commission (April 15, 2004)
...ntion beyond the reach of the law." The ICRC, which oversees the Third Geneva Convention guaranteeing minimum standards of treatment for prisoners of war, said las... - Abuse of Iraqi POWs by GIs Probed (April 29, 2004)
...le they view as important.” Frederick says he didn’t see a copy of the Geneva Convention rules for handling prisoners of war until after he was charged. The... - Has the U.S. Government Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq? (May 23, 2004)
...W. Bush that because “the war against terrorism is a new kind of war,” the Geneva Convention III on the Treatment of Prisoners of War need not be heeded. As Gonzales w... - Torturing Iraq in an Unnecessary War (May 4, 2004)
... prisoners should already have been released in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention. A U.S. Army report noted that more than 60 percent of the civilian inmate... - Israel Targets Palestinian Moderate (July 10, 2002)
..., which human rights groups said included Israeli violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israel, which escaped a UN investigation through US intervention, sai... - Occupation Economic Reforms of Dubious Legality (January 10, 2004)
...The United States signed both the Hague Regulations of 1907 and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and has incorporated their mandates regarding occupation into the... - Torture in Iraq: Appalling. Politicians’ Reactions? Not Much Better. (May 11, 2004)
...capture to declare him a prisoner of war, subject to the protection of the Geneva Convention. Was this period used to “soften him up” for interrogation? Even if the... - Fallujah and the Reality of War (November 9, 2004)
...al closing (not the only such that I documented in Iraq) also violates the Geneva Convention. In Fallujah, you were rarely free of the sound of artillery booming in... - The Roots of Torture (May 24, 2004)
... 26, and sought an immediate meeting with the president. The proposed anti-Geneva Convention declaration, he warned, "will reverse over a century of U.S. policy and pr... - UK, EU to Protest US Military Tribunals (July 7, 2003)
... a hearing to determine whether they qualify as prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention. Washington has instead insisted that all of the detainees are "illegal co... - Even if Palestine Wins at The Hague... (February 24, 2004)
...igrants in those territories constitute a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and also con... - In the Land of Guantánamo (June 27, 2003)
...tions. If they were, the prison camp would look a lot different. The Third Geneva Convention, which pertains to P.O.W.'s, says that "close confinement" settings are ac... - Euphemisms for Israeli Settlements Confuse Coverage (June 26, 2002)
... lasting peace." Resolution 446 also calls on Israel to observe the Fourth Geneva Convention, which states that an occupying power "shall not deport or transfer parts... - Blair 'Obsessed' with Place in History via Iraq (May 12, 2003)
...at the coalition are occupying powers in occupied territory. Under the Geneva Convention of 1949 and the Hague regulations of 1907 the coalition has clear responsi... - A Prayer for America (February 17, 2002)
...ainees in Guantanamo Bay. We did not authorize the withdrawal from the Geneva Convention. We did not authorize military tribunals suspending due process and ha... - Torture Tactics Used on Terrorism Suspects Held in Secret Overseas (December 26, 2002)
...held, humanely and in a manner consistent with the principles of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949." The convention outlined the standards for treatment of prison... - German Interior Minister on Deportations, Detainees, Iraqi Aid (September 15, 2003)
...y least they are not being held as prisoners of war in accordance with the Geneva Convention, because there was no belligerent party in Afghanistan. But they are also... - Tough New Tactics by US Tighten Grip on Iraqi Towns (December 7, 2003)
... "Well, I guess what we need to do is go back to the laws of war and the Geneva Convention and all of those issues that define when a structure ceases to be what it... - I'm No Taliban ... Get Me Out Of Here (February 22, 2004)
...rganisation – al-Qaeda – the US will not be bound by the terms of the 1949 Geneva Convention which lays down legal guidelines for the proper treatment and protection o... - The Pictures That Lost The War (May 2, 2004)
...rt, no training whatsoever,” he said, claiming he had never been shown the Geneva Convention. “I kept asking my chain of command for certain things like rules and regu... - Torture at Abu Ghraib (May 10, 2004)
...want me to say.' You don’t get righteous information." Under the fourth Geneva convention, an occupying power can jail civilians who pose an "imperative" security t... - Terror and Just Response (July 2, 2002)
...ional conference in Geneva that reaffirmed the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to the occupied terrorities, so that most US-Israeli actions there are war... - The State of Security and Warfare of Demons (April 1, 2003)
... in the subsequent battle do not qualify to be prisoners of war as per the Geneva Convention. In dogmatic articulation, the first postulate does not have any relation...
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