{"id":292570,"date":"2017-01-31T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/un-expert-warns-trump-reviving-torture-catastrophic\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:12:01","slug":"un-expert-warns-trump-reviving-torture-catastrophic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/un-expert-warns-trump-reviving-torture-catastrophic\/","title":{"rendered":"UN expert warns Trump reviving torture &#039;catastrophic&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United Nations&#8217; top torture expert has warned US President Donald Trump that reinstating waterboarding and other torture techniques for interrogating terror suspects\u00a0would have\u00a0catastrophic global consequences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the new administration were to revive the use of torture, &#8230; the consequences around the world would be catastrophic,&#8221; Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture, said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout any doubt, waterboarding amounts to torture,\u201d Melzer said, adding that a US revival of torture would encourage more countries to &#8220;get back into the torture business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urgently appeal to President Trump to carefully consider not only US legal obligations, doctrine and tradition, but also the consolidated legal and moral views of the entire international community before allowing the re-introduction of methods or interrogation that are more closely associated with barbarism than with civilization,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/31\/508552\/US-UN-Trump-waterboarding-torture\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations&#8217; top torture expert has warned US President Donald Trump that reinstating waterboarding and other torture techniques for interrogating terror suspects\u00a0would have\u00a0catastrophic global consequences. &#8220;If the new administration were to revive the use of torture, &#8230; the consequences around the world would be catastrophic,&#8221; Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}