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Obama's Acknowledgement that Waterboarding is Torture Means Criminal Investigations...

Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:22pm EDT
 
Obama's Acknowledgement that Waterboarding is Torture Means Criminal
Investigations Must Follow

WASHINGTONApril 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to President Barack
Obama's statement during his First 100 Days press conference that
waterboarding is torture, Amnesty International's executive director Larry Cox
issued the following statement: 

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081014/AILOGO )

"Amnesty International agrees with President Obama's assessment that
waterboarding is torture.  Because torture is a crime under domestic and
international law, the next step is inescapable. The president must direct
Attorney General Holder to investigate these criminal acts. There are no
shortcuts to security and no shortcuts to restoring American values." 

Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist
organization with more than 2.2 million supporters, activists and volunteers
in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The
organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the
public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and
dignity are denied. 



SOURCE  Amnesty International

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