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Six Pitcairn men found guilty of sex attacks By Patrick Sawer, Evening Standard 10/25/04 "Six Pitcairn islanders were today found guilty of raping and indecently assaulting girls as young as 12 after a trial on the South Pacific island. But their victims, who testified via video from New Zealand, said they were treated as "sex things" as girls and raped at will. The men were tried for 55 sex attacks, stretching back 40 years, on women and girls on the island which has a permanent population of only 47." http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/14256663?source=Evening%20Standard
also see http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1335865,00.html
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102504B.shtml
Detainees Secretly Taken Out Of Iraq By Dana Priest The Washington Post
Sunday 24 October 2004
Practice is called breach of protections.
At the request of the CIA, the Justice Department drafted a confidential memo that authorizes the agency to transfer detainees out of Iraq for interrogation - a practice that international legal specialists say contravenes the Geneva Conventions.
One intelligence official familiar with the operation said the CIA has used the March draft memo as legal support for secretly transporting as many as a dozen detainees out of Iraq in the last six months. The agency has concealed the detainees from the International Red Cross and other authorities, the official said.
The draft opinion, written by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel and dated March 19, 2004, refers to both Iraqi citizens and foreigners in Iraq, who the memo says are protected by the treaty. It permits the CIA to take Iraqis out of the country to be interrogated for a "brief but not indefinite period." It also says the CIA can permanently remove persons deemed to be "illegal aliens" under "local immigration law."
Some specialists in international law say the opinion amounts to a reinterpretation of one of the most basic rights of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which protects civilians during wartime and occupation, including insurgents who were not part of Iraq's military.
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