Περίπτωση βασανιστηρίων Rumsfeld που πέφτουν στη Γαλλία

ΠΑΡΙΣΙ (AP) - ένας κατήγορος του Παρισιού έχει ρίξει έξω μια καταγγελία ενάντια στον προηγούμενο αμυντικό γραμματέα Donald Rumsfeld για τα βασανιστήρια στο Ιράκ και στις ΗΠΑ. στρατιωτικό στρατόπεδο κράτησης στον κόλπο του Γκουαντανάμο, ένας δικηγόρος για μια από τις τέσσερις ομάδες που αρχειοθέτησαν την εν λόγω περίπτωση Παρασκευή.

Ο κατήγορος απομάκρυνε την περίπτωση λόγω του ότι Rumsfeld ωφελείται από την ασυλία, εν λόγω πληρεξούσιος Πάτρικ Baudoin, Πρόεδρος της διεθνούς ομοσπονδίας των ανθρώπινων δικαιωμάτων. Οι οργανώσεις που υπέβαλαν την καταγγελία έχουν ζητήσει από τον κατήγορο για να επανεξετάσουν.

Η καταγγελία αρχειοθετήθηκε ο Οκτώβριος. 25 during a visit by Rumsfeld to Paris.

Prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin said Rumsfeld is covered by the immunity accorded to heads of state or government and foreign ministers for acts during their time in office, according to a letter seen by The Associated Press. The French Foreign Ministry advised the prosecutor’s office in the matter, the letter said.

Rumsfeld’s one-day visit last month was enough time for the European and American human rights groups to take advantage of a French disposition by which people suspected of torture can be prosecuted in France if they are on French soil.

The complaint said that Rumsfeld, in his former position as U.S. defense secretary, “authorized and ordered crimes of torture to be carried out … as well as other war crimes.”

It cited documents including memos from Rumsfeld, internal reports and testimony from former U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski - the one-time commander of U.S. military prisons in Iraq.

The Bush administration has repeatedly denied the government tortures people.

The complaint was filed by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and two Paris-based groups, the International Federation of Human Rights and the League of Human Rights.

The International Federation for Human Rights cited cases it claimed had set a precedent for a new interpretation of immunity. Those included Chile’s late dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who was pursued in Europe in 1990s and, more recently, former Chad President Hissene Habre, indicted by a Belgian court last year for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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