Anti-Terrorism and Human Rights
Human Rights Watch today called for the United Nations to appoint "a high-level expert to monitor the impact of counter-terrorist measures on human rights... Human rights abuses will fuel terrorism, not defeat it. Governments must be stopped from using counter-terrorism as a pretext for repression.” Yesterday, HRW released a report detailing abuses made in the name of fighting terrorism.
The report includes case studies from China, Egypt, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States and Uzbekistan....The Human Rights Watch report highlights systematic violation of due process rights, far-reaching restrictions on civil liberties, crackdowns against internal political movements, allegations of torture, tightening of controls on refugees and migrants and arbitrary detention of non-nationals. For instance:
The United States’ response to September 11 has seen the arbitrary and secret detention of non-citizens, secret deportation hearings and the military detention without charge or access to counsel of U.S. citizens designated as "enemy combatants;”
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