The panel’s report was published following a series of hearings in Geneva last month. Michael Brown’s parents testified before the panel. Michael Brown SR. spoke to the press after his testimony.
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By DemocracyNow.org | December 3, 2014
As protests continue over the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the United States is facing pressure internationally over its failure to put a halt to police brutality. In a new report, the United Nations Committee Against Torture expresses deep concern over the "frequent and recurrent police shootings or fatal pursuits of unarmed black individuals." The Committee also criticizes a number of other U.S. practices on torture and imprisonment, Guantánamo Bay, and the custody of migrants including children in "prison-like detention facilities." We discuss the report’s findings with Dr. Jens Modvig, member of the Committee against Torture and one of two rapporteurs for its report.
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JUAN GONZÁLEZ: As protests continue over the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the United States is facing pressure internationally over its failure to put a halt to police brutality. In a new report the United Nations Committee Against Torture Expresses deep concern over the "frequent and recurrent police shootings or fatal pursuits of unarmed black individuals. The panel’s report was published following a series of hearings in Geneva last month. Michael Brown’s parents testified before the panel. Michael Brown SR. spoke to the press after his testimony.
MICHAEL BROWN SR.: This trip is very important for the family, making a powerful step towards justice. We need your help. That’s why we’re here. We need the help to get this done. That’s we’re here.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: The United Nations Committee questions Against Torture also questions a number of other U.S. practices. On torture and imprisonment it criticizes the White Houses refusal to prosecute officials in the George W. Bush administration for torture and to provide redress to their victims. It also faults the United States for the indefinite imprisonment of foreign nationals at Guantánamo Bay, and calls for an end to force feedings.
AMY GOODMAN: The U.N. torture panel also calls on the Obama administration to release the Senate report on C.I.A. torture, "in the most complete and comprehensible form possible." This comes as Senate Democrats have accused the White House of trying to censor key portions. the panel also called for ending U.S. custody of migrants, including children in "prison-like detention facilities." To talk more about the U.N. report, we go to Copenhagen, Denmark where we’re joined by Dr. Jens Modvig. He’s a member of the U.N. Committee Against Torture, was one of two rapporteurs for the most recent U.N. report on torture in the U.S. He’s also Chief Medical Officer at Dignity, The Danish Institute Against Torture. We welcome you to Democracy Now!, Dr. Jens Modvig. So, this was your first report on torture, the U.N. Committee’s report on torture since 2006. Why do it now, so many years later, and talk about your main findings.
DR. JENS MODVIG: Well, it should be remembered that the convention against torture which has been signed by 156 countries in the world including he United States, obliges the state parties to send, regularly, actually after each four years, a report to the committee on what has been the progress in terms of implementing, and the prohibition of torture, and preventing that torture takes place. So, this is a regular report from the United States and it’s a regular review by the committee against torture.
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