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101 hukuk ve insan haklan örgütünden CİA işkenceleri için BM'ye başvuru.
Bu gün arala IR BAROSUNUN da bulunduğu l01 hukuk ve
insan hakları 26 Haziran Dünya İşkence Mağdurlarıyla Daya-
nışma Günü v Milletler (BM) İnsan Hakları Konseyine CİA'nın
İşkence Programının soruşturulması çağrısına ilişkin ortak bir deklerasyon sunul-
du.
29th Session of the LD,J Human Rights Council - June 15 - July 3, 201ı5 New call from
national and inteational rights groups on the need to ensure accountability for the U. S.
CIA Torture Program Item 4 - Interactive Dialogue Last December, the U. S. Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence released the summary, findings and conclusions of its
four-year investigation into the Detention and Interrogation Program operated by the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Since then, the inteational human rights community
has reiterated the call for full transparency about and accountability for this unlawful
program, in which systematic human rights violations, including the crimes under intea-
tional law of torture and enforced disappearance were committed. Last March, more
than 20 human rights groups called on the Council to take action and demand that the
United States fulfitl its inteational human rights obligations on truth, accountability and
remedy, including by appointing a special prosecutor to conduct a comprehensİve and
credible criminal investigation of alleged serious crimes described in the report and to
establish a special fund to compensate victims.
Last month, during the United States' UPR session, a significant number of Member-
States joined civil society's call and raised the issue of accountability and reparations
for the use of torture and other human rights violations in the context of U. S. counter-
terrorism policies and practices.
They also emphasized the need to end indefinite detention and close the Guant5namo
detention facility, one of the remaining examples of the unlawful actions taken in the
name of national security since the attacks of 1 1 September 200l . Delivering justice for
the victims and ending indefinite detention in Guant6namo are both issues that still
require more decisive and urgent action from the Obama administration.
on 26 June, the world witl mark the lnteational Day in Support of Vİctims of Torture.
The U. S. govement was a strong supporter of the adoption of the UN Convention a8a-
inst Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UN-
CAT), which is commemorated every year on this day. The United States is also a gene-
rous contributor to the U. N. Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture. But the U. S. 's
failure to hold accountable those responsible for the CIA program oftorture and enfor-
ced disappearance, to ensure the victims' rights to truth and reparations, and to take
other actions to ensure non-repetition of these heinous crimes leaves the U. S. in viola-
tion of its own obligations under UNCAT and other inteational instruments and is a
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