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...GENEVA: The U.N. Committee Against Torture ruled that many of Israel's interrogation methods constitute torture and should be halted immediately. The committee denounced Israel's use of death threats, sleep deprivation and violent shaking of prisoners, and said they violate a 1987 U.N. convention forbidding abusive interrogation methods. Israel has argued that its tactics amount to "moderate physical and psychological pressure," not torture, and are often used to extract information from suspects who may know about terrorist attacks. "We cannot but express disappointment at the conclusions of the committee," said Israel's representative, Yosef Lamdan. "It is absolutely...
...declared a seven day hunger strike and demanded a fair trial according to the Geneva Convention," she said. "Guatemalans came out in droves to support me with flowers and water...
...alternative religions seems to indicate so. What will be the next group to leave us on this quest? We should brace ourselves for more surprises and hope that our capacity to be shocked, as well as our ability to recover from the shock, will remain intact. VICTOR SOLLORANO Geneva...
...working on a neutrino experiment at Harvard and in a high energy physics lab in Geneva, Switzerland, said that he is also sticking with physics in graduate school...
...help him pry open European markets, which rely on various tariffs and trade barriers effectively to shut out Lindner's bananas. Though hundreds of companies ask Washington to investigate unfair trade practices, the U.S. Trade Representative accepts only about 14 cases each year. Even fewer are taken to Geneva for resolution by the World Trade Organization. And only rarely do such cases make the cut when hardly any U.S. jobs are at stake; Chiquita employs most of its 45,000 workers in Honduras and Guatemala. And yet Kantor took the case...