NEWS ALERT FROM THE CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (CCR)

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NEWS ALERT FROM THE CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (CCR)

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Did Bush Cancel Trip to Switzerland to Avoid Possible Torture Inquiry? Looks That Way

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 11:57am.

NEWS ALERT FROM THE CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (CCR)

5 February 2011, Geneva - Just days before George W. Bush's scheduled arrival to Geneva, the former United States President decided to cancel his trip. The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent the following statement:

"CCR, with the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), have spent weeks preparing a 2,500 page torture case against Bush that would have been filed on Monday, February 7 - the anniversary of the day, nine years ago, when Bush decided the Geneva Conventions didn't apply to 'enemy combatants.' Bush was due to be in Geneva on the 12th, and his presence on Swiss territory is required for the prosecutor to take action.

"The complaint, brought under the Convention Against Torture with the support of 50 NGOs, two former UN Special Rapporteurs on Torture and two Nobel Prize winners, was on behalf of two torture victims, one who is still at Guantánamo.

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