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11.09.10, 15:35
Newy York Times, sroda:
www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/us/09secrets.html?hp
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that former prisoners of the C.I.A. could not sue over their alleged torture in overseas prisons because such a lawsuit might expose secret government information. . . .
"To this date, not a single victim of the Bush administration’s torture program has had his day in court," [the ACLU's Ben] Wizner said. . . . "If this decision stands, the United States will have closed its courts to torture victims while providing complete immunity to their torturers."
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Yahoo News, czwartek:
news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100909/wl_csm/324625
Iraq to pay $400 million for Saddam's mistreatment of Americans
Iraq has quietly agreed to pay $400 million in claims to American citizens who say they were tortured or traumatized by Saddam Hussein’s regime after his 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
The controversial settlement ends years of legal battles and could help Iraq emerge from United Nations sanctions put in place two decades ago