5.05.2006
UN to Quiz Washington on Torture (news.BBC.co.uk)
Last Updated: Friday, 5 May 2006, 05:51 GMT 06:51 UK
The US is due to appear before the UN Committee on Torture for the first time since launching its war on terror after the 11 September 2001 attacks.
Thirty senior officials from the departments of state, defence, justice and homeland security will testify in public at the hearing in Geneva.
They are likely to face tough questions about practices used in the anti-terror drive, correspondents say.
Rights groups accuse the US of flouting the UN Convention against Torture.
They accuse the US of allowing the torture and inhumane treatment of foreign terror suspects at their detention centres in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere.
(More ... BBC NEWS | Americas | UN to quiz Washington on torture) ¶ 20:18
The US is due to appear before the UN Committee on Torture for the first time since launching its war on terror after the 11 September 2001 attacks.
Thirty senior officials from the departments of state, defence, justice and homeland security will testify in public at the hearing in Geneva.
They are likely to face tough questions about practices used in the anti-terror drive, correspondents say.
Rights groups accuse the US of flouting the UN Convention against Torture.
They accuse the US of allowing the torture and inhumane treatment of foreign terror suspects at their detention centres in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere.
(More ... BBC NEWS | Americas | UN to quiz Washington on torture) ¶ 20:18
