Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Sarah Mendelson, director of the CSIS Human Rights and Security Initiative, was quoted by Agence France Press, "Experts: Harsh Interrogation Methods Strain US Image, Endanger Soldiers."
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Sarah Mendelson, director of the CSIS Human Rights and Security Initiative, was quoted by Agence France Press, "Experts: Harsh Interrogation Methods Strain US Image, Endanger Soldiers."
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The use by the United States of harsh interrogation methods against suspected terrorists has stained the country's image and is putting US soldiers' lives at risk, experts said here Wednesday.
Sarah Mendelson of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which hosted the forum along with Human Rights First, deplored the US administration's "new ambivalence towards torture prohibition."
In a report, she accused the administration of President George W. Bush of appearing "increasingly prepared to pay lip-service to or ignore entirely US obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law."
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