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Old 05-08-2004, 11:19 AM
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Torture justified under some circumstances: human rights lawyer

If you think this guy is American, you are correct

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As the debate of the treatment of Iraqi prisoners intensifies, one of America's leading human rights lawyers, Professor Alan Dershowitz, has justified the use of torture under some circumstances.

Professor Dershowitz of Harvard University claims that torture, if used as government policy, should be practiced openly, where those involved can be held accountable for their actions
If this is indeed a leading human rights lawyer, I cannot even fathom, what the less senior "human rights activists" stand for
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