Dick Cheney is scheduled to visit Vancouver, Canada next week as part of his book signing tour. The New York based group, Human Rights Watch, is urging Canada to be prepared to file charges against Cheney when he enters the country.
“The U.S. has utterly failed to meet its legal obligation to investigate torture by the Bush administration, but that shouldn’t let other countries off the hook,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, in the release.
Human Rights Watch referenced two cases of alleged torture of Canadian citizens, Maher Arar and Omar Khadr, in which the U.S. was “directly responsible or complicit.”
The CBC is reporting:
The New York-based rights group said Saturday that Canadian law provides for jurisdiction over an individual for torture and other crimes, even for offences committed outside of Canada.
Canada ratified the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture in 1987 and incorporated its provisions into the Canadian criminal code.
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