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US report slams human rights abuses, fails to notice irony
The US State Department's annual report on human rights, released yesterday, has slammed several countries for continuing to practise a range of abuses.
For example, of Saudi Arabia, the report says: "There were credible reports of torture and abuse of prisoners by security forces, arbitrary arrests, and incommunicado detentions... Most trials were closed, and defendants usually appeared before judges without legal counsel."
Of Iran: "There were numerous reports that security forces tortured prisoners and detainees. Additionally, there were arbitrary arrests, extended incommunicado detention, poor and overcrowded prisons, lack of access to counsel...and violation of personal privacy."
In Burma: "...security forces raped, tortured, beat, and otherwise abused prisoners and detainees. Arbitrary arrests and incommunicado detention were frequent."
The report notes that "The United States and its international partners worked with many countries during 2004 to expand freedom by helping to protect the political rights of their citizens and to advance the rule of law in their societies."
Meanwhile, at home in the USA, at Guantanamo Bay, at Abu Ghraib, and at an unknown number of the US government's secret detention centres...
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Look at this, moron.
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