Among them is that prisoners are exposed to extreme temperatures, or long detention in isolation. |
Either they should be released or brought before an independent court in the U.S. or in the country of origin to be judged there. |
Every secret place of detention is usually a higher risk for ill treatment, that the danger of secrecy. |
Fact-finding on the spot has to include interviews with detainees. What's the sense of going to a detention facility and doing fact-finding when you can't speak to the detainees? It's just nonsense. |
I am 100 percent sure. I have evidence. |
I am presently in the process of investigating as far as I can these allegations ... If I come to the conclusion that it is a serious and well-founded allegation, then I will officially submit it to attention of the Chinese government. |
I haven't heard that before. ... It's a new allegation. |
I think that described very, very well the situation. You get very, very weak because of not being able to move, and being in this particular position, of course, your whole body starts hurting. He endured it, but he felt, and I would agree, that this was torture. |
I think there is ample evidence that both police and other security forces have been and are continuing to systematically practice torture, in particular against dissidents or people who are opponents of the regime. |
If there is a substantial risk in a certain country like Algeria, Jordan, Egypt, etc., then diplomatic assurances cannot be used. If a country usually and systematically practices torture, then of course they would deny they were doing it because it is absolutely prohibited. |
In forced feeding of hunger-strikers, if the accusations are true, the ways and means reach the level of torture. |
in general, the way people are treated in prisons after they are convicted and in particular, those sentenced to death. |
It is important that the EU (plays) its part in convincing the U.S.. |
It is totally unacceptable, even in the fight against terrorism, that a highly democratic country such as the United States of America is keeping secret places of detention. |
It makes no sense (to go). You cannot do a fact-finding mission without talking to the detainees. |