Both U.S. law and international law require torturers and those responsible for torture to be prosecuted. If the U.S. won't do it, other countries have a duty to step in and they can do so under the principle of universal jurisdiction for crimes against humanity. Using this principle, the Center for Constitutional Rights and our international partners have spent the last decade filing torture cases in Germany, Spain, France, Switzerland and Canada. This week, in response to the Senate’s report on the CIA’s use of torture, we are joining a criminal complaint filed in Germany by the Berlin-based ECCHR - European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights against former CIA head George Tenet, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the Bush administration:http://bit.ly/13E0EK9
Learn more about our universal jurisdiction work:
http://ccrjustice.org/universal-jurisdiction
http://ccrjustice.org/universal-jurisdiction
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