http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20090421081237432Obama has violated international law - expert
Published in: Legalbrief Today
Date: Tue 21 April 2009
Category: General
Issue No: 2299
US President Barack Obama is in violation of international law for declining to prosecute Bush-era CIA agents who allegedly used torture, UN special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak has said in an interview with Austrian newspaper Der Standard.
A Jurist report notes that Nowak said the US is bound by the UN Convention Against Torture, which requires prosecution in all cases in which there is evidence of torture. Nowak said there was still a possibility of trying agents in American courts, because Obama did not grant them amnesty. Nowak called for an independent investigation and compensation for torture victims.