This month's The Monthly features an article on David Hicks and the interrogation-methods employed on him by his captors.
As ABC Radio National's Breakfast program introduced an interview with A-G Ruddock this morning:
"Yesterday on the program we heard accusations that the infamous Guantanamo Bay base - and it's off-limits, CIA operated Camp Echo are being used by the United States to perfect psychological torture.
Australian David Hicks appears to be a key detainee being submitted to this alleged torture regime. Its claimed that Hicks was held in a closet sized, self contained cell without sunlight for 244 days and nights, watched around the clock by silent guards.
The accusations come as a new report into alleged CIA abuses is bringing to light the widespread American practice of rendition. Rendition is another word for the kidnapping of terror suspects and transporting them to secret prisons in third countries where they have allegedly been tortured out of the reach of US or International law.
The European report accuses a dozen European nations of turning a blind eye to rendition and even active involvement in the practice.
The United States denies any involvement in rendition or torture. Here's US Secretary of State speaking in December last year:
For its part the Australian Government has accepted United States assurances from the highest levels that torture is not being used at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere.
So has David Hicks been abandoned by Australia and tortured at Camp Echo?"
So, then we had our A-G being interviewed - check it our here. One word describes his responses to very, very serious allegations - appalling! Ruddock has not only diminished the Office he holds, but himself, as an attorney, who so flagrantly wears the Amnesty International badge.
This, here, is how The Age reports Ruddock's response to The Monthly article.
As ABC Radio National's Breakfast program introduced an interview with A-G Ruddock this morning:
"Yesterday on the program we heard accusations that the infamous Guantanamo Bay base - and it's off-limits, CIA operated Camp Echo are being used by the United States to perfect psychological torture.
Australian David Hicks appears to be a key detainee being submitted to this alleged torture regime. Its claimed that Hicks was held in a closet sized, self contained cell without sunlight for 244 days and nights, watched around the clock by silent guards.
The accusations come as a new report into alleged CIA abuses is bringing to light the widespread American practice of rendition. Rendition is another word for the kidnapping of terror suspects and transporting them to secret prisons in third countries where they have allegedly been tortured out of the reach of US or International law.
The European report accuses a dozen European nations of turning a blind eye to rendition and even active involvement in the practice.
The United States denies any involvement in rendition or torture. Here's US Secretary of State speaking in December last year:
For its part the Australian Government has accepted United States assurances from the highest levels that torture is not being used at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere.
So has David Hicks been abandoned by Australia and tortured at Camp Echo?"
So, then we had our A-G being interviewed - check it our here. One word describes his responses to very, very serious allegations - appalling! Ruddock has not only diminished the Office he holds, but himself, as an attorney, who so flagrantly wears the Amnesty International badge.
This, here, is how The Age reports Ruddock's response to The Monthly article.
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