[NetBehaviour] Human rights law 'applies to British troops in Iraq'.

[Daniel C. Boyer]

I think this ruling is pretty much a no-brainer for
anyone with knowledge of the applicable law.

Daniel C. Boyer
--- marc <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org> wrote:

> Human rights law 'applies to British troops in
> Iraq'.
> 
> The United Kingdom's highest court, the House of
> Lords, ruled today that 
> the conduct of British troops in Iraq and other
> countries is subjected 
> to EU human rights law.
> 
> Law lords issued an historic four to one verdict
> that the UK's 
> obligations under the European Convention on Human
> Rights applied to 
> British forces deployed overseas in the case of an
> Iraqi man who was 
> tortured to death in their custody four years ago.
> 
> “This is a massive breakthrough in my clients’
> efforts to secure 
> accountability for deaths and torture in detention,”
> Human rights lawyer 
> Phil Shiner said, who represented the father of the
> murder victim Baha 
> Mousa. "Even when Mousa died after being hooded for
> most of the 36 hours 
> he survived there was huge resistance at the highest
> levels to stopping 
> hooding because of pressure from the US."
> 
> An autopsy into Mousa's death found that the 93
> injuries to Baha Mousa 
> had been sustained by multiple soldiers, but only
> one soldier, Corporal 
> Payne has ever been convicted of the crime.
> 
> “This historic ruling means that there can never be
> a British Guantanamo 
> anywhere in the world,” director of British civil
> rights group Liberty 
> said. "“British soldiers died in a war fought in the
> name of human 
> rights. Yet our Government argued that the Human
> Rights Act had no place 
> in Iraq. This decision means that Government must
> now face up to its 
> obligations to detainees. Individual soldiers will
> no longer carry the 
> can for systemic hooding and beating and worse.”
> 
> more...
>
http://pressesc.com/01181742135_house_of_lords_torture
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