Terrorist Suspects Should Not Be Punished

Law P.D 2 T.hone Should terrorist suspects be tortured Terrorist suspects should not be tortured but they should be punished. To prevent from future terrorist attacks, the U.S and Britain have focused on intelligence gathering in lieu of prosecution. But that focus poses its own security threat by ignoring the problem of what to do with terrorist suspects once they are captured. For the past year, beginning with the senate testimony of Alberto Gonzales, U.S attorney general in January, the bush administration had claimed the power to subject detainees to cruel inhuman degrading treatment, as long as the victim is a non-American held outside the U.S to provide a local for such mistreatment, it has secret detentions elsewhere. The bush administration today is the only government known to claim the power to abuse detainees as a matter of official policy. In the past years, the U.S senate approved legislation sponsored by senator john McCain that would prohibit enhances treatment of detainees by U.S personnel anywhere. George w. bush threatened to veto it. America still has to face the growing problem of what to do with detainees. It does not want to release them, but because of this policy of mistreatment they cannot prosecute. Tony Blair , the U.K prime minister gave an option to send non-citizens terrorist suspects home, If their government has a history of torturing such people. Blair is proposing to send terrorist suspects to places such as Libya, Jordan, Algeria, morocco, and Tunisia all have notorious records of torturing radical Isla mist. The united nation convention against torture, which both Britain and the U.S have ratified, unconditionally prohibits ending anyone to another country where there are beliefs that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture. The British government somewhat like the Americans, offer a fig leaf to cover this complicity with torture. First, it proposes to sign agreements in which other governments promise nit to mistreat suspects handed over to them, it has reached such agreements with Libya and Jordan and accords are in the works for other North African countries. Second, the agreement permit monitors to check periodically on how these detainees are being treated. Monitoring will not help keep an eye on the terrorist suspects. A round-the-clock watch might deny terrorist of ply on trade but Britain, like the U.S contemplates on periodic monitoring. The monitoring can give a sense of how detainees across an entire institution are treated, as the international committee of the Red Cross does, because detainees can benefit from safety in numbers to report abuse. Visits from time to time cannot protect isolated detainees. This plan is incompatibility with international law has led to efforts to undermine the law. At the UN General assembly in New York

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