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金曜日、2007年6月22日

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弁護士はイギリスの政府がイラクの抑留者の苦悶を組織的方針を承認したことを主張している。

要求は英本国の主の高等法院の家の法律の主によって6月13日に支配に続く AlSkeiniおよび他防衛のためのvの国務長官 場合。 場合は2003年にイギリス占められたバスラで死んだ6人のイラクの一般市民の系列によって持って来られた。 パトロールのイギリスの兵士が他の5つを撃つ間、死者の1、イギリスの管理で死ぬBaha Mousa。

Mousa、26歳の受付係はイギリスの一時的な延滞設備の女王の連隊のLancashireの兵士によって他と共に、引き留められ、伝えられるところでは無理に曲られた。 これは長期、睡眠の剥奪のための圧力の位置を保つ砂袋によってhoodingを含むと言われ、どの位まで蹴ることができるか見るために兵士が競ったところ」、kickboxing 「ゲームに服従させる。

Mousaが彼の首に傷害、4本の壊れた肋骨を含んで、折られた鼻93、こわされた手首およびligatureに苦しんだことを写真および記録は示す。 1人の証人に従って、「叫んでいる私はBaha Mousaを聞いた。 私はまだフード付きだったが、彼が別の部屋にいたように思えた。 私は彼が叫ぶのを聞いた: `は助ける私をの血出て来ている、助ける私を、私死ぬ行っている」。 彼は言うために次のとおりだったことを私が聞いた最後の事: 私の鼻が」。壊した` これの後にあった沈黙が」。

2004年2月では、国際的な赤十字は「イギリスの政府にMousaに与えられた処置上の心配」を表現し、ひざまずくために「作られた他の抑留者は地面に対して祈りの位置で….ように、手直面し、 兵士は彼らの頭部を上げるそれらの首の背部で押した」。

「敗北の記述に一貫した腹部の乾燥されたかさぶたが付いている大きいhaematomas、バトックおよび側面、腿、手首、鼻および額示されている身体検査」。を

法律の主の」判断は政府によって反対された2004年に高等法院の判決を確認する。 Mousa’s family and the relatives of the five other Iraqis had argued that the government was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the UK Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) by not conducting an independent inquiry into the deaths. They added that such an inquiry was made even more necessary because coalition personnel enjoyed complete immunity from prosecution under Coalition Provisional Authority Order 17.

The government argued that the ECHR only applied to Europe and was not applicable to British troops in Iraq, and that the HRA only applied in UK territory.

In their judgement, the Law Lords ruled that that there must be a full independent inquiry whenever detainees such as Mousa suffer inhuman treatment, torture or death whilst detained in UK military establishments anywhere in the world. However, they also agreed with the High Court that because the other five Iraqis were not in custody and their shootings had occurred on Iraq territory, which was outside UK jurisdiction, their case was therefore “outside the scope of the convention and the Act.” Their case is now to be taken to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Des Browne, the defence secretary, welcomed the Law Lords ruling, saying it provided “helpful clarification of the precise legal framework under which UK forces operated overseas.”

He claimed, “We have never argued that the treatment of Baha Mousa was acceptable or that his death should not have been investigated,” but he continued to refer to the Mousa’s treatment as “an unlawful conditioning process” rather than torture.

Following the Law Lords’ ruling, lawyer Phil Shiner representing the Mousa family repeated his calls for an independent inquiry. He told the Times that the government had tried to cover up the “shocking new revelations” during a court martial of those involved in Mousa’s death that revealed that the government and the top army brass were “complicit in a systematic policy of torturing detainees in British military custody.”

At the court martial at Camp Bulford in southern England earlier this year, Corporal Donald Payne of the Queen’s Lancashire regiment pleaded guilty to inhumane treatment and was jailed for a year and dismissed from the army, making him Britain’s first convicted war criminal. Six other soldiers, including the former commander of the regiment, Col. Jorge Mendonca, had their cases thrown out amid claims that there were gaps in the evidence and that some key suspects did not appear at the trial.

Shiner explained, “To date the UK Government has managed to suppress much of this material, including all the bundles of documents and evidence from the court martial, and a shocking video showing hooded and cuffed detainees being verbally and physically abused as they were man-handled into the UK’s preferred stress position.”

Shiner added, “We’re not just talking about nuanced degrading treatment, this is torture by any definition of that word…. And we’re not just talking about torture, we’re talking about the techniques the Heath government banned, such as hooding, sleep deprivation, stressing, food deprivation and white noise.”

According to Shiner the ban brought in by Edward Heath’s Conservative government in 1972 during the crisis in North Ireland was overturned after the government’s chief law officer, Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith, declared that the HRA did not apply abroad and thus lower legal standards were permitted. The Defence, Intelligence and Security Centre at Chicksands in central England became the centre for training in these techniques.

As a result, it became standard practice to hood detainees in Iraq using sandbags and plastic cement bags. And there was “huge resistance at the highest levels” to stopping the practice because of pressure from the US.

Shiner also criticised army doctors who certified that detainees were fit to withstand ill-treatment and actually initiated it.

He concluded by saying, “The implications of this case are enormous.”

Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty, one of the human rights groups that initiated the court cases, commented, “The significance of this decision is that individual soldiers cannot be left as scapegoats and left to carry the can for the failures of our government and our military high command…. [T]he Human Rights Act protects anyone detained by British authorities anywhere in the world.”

Further hearings are likely following the Al-Skeini ruling. A number of cases involve abuses committed at Camp Breadbasket in May 2003 by soldiers in the 1st Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. They detained Iraqis who had been looting and then beat them, forced them to simulate oral and anal sex and suspended them from a forklift truck. Martyn Day, a lawyer acting for the claimants, said, “There are 10 cases being prepared in relation to Camp Breadbasket and a further 20 claims relating to a variety of allegations of abuse committed by soldiers in other parts of southern Iraq.”

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