01:202:324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lynndie England, Due Process, Strappado
13 May 2016
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Critics complain that government agencies, such as the cia, use torture without legal authority. Despite its illegality, enemy agents have been detained and physically abused in secret prisons around the world without the benefit of due process. Due process makes us a great country because that is what ensures fairness to people that gets convicted. The us government: cannot act against foreigners abroad, limits physical coercion by the government under the fifth amendment for self- incrimination and the eight amendment for prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Legally it is not okay to be engaged in indefinite detention or torture regardless of the end, place or victim. From late 2003 to early 2004, military police from the us army and the cia committed human rights violations against prisoners in the abu ghraib prison. The pictures were first published by amnesty international. On july 23rd, 2014 they held a press conference.
