UN Warns of Dwindling Respect for Rule of Law
by Haider Rizvi

Iraq's special war crimes tribunal, and the "anti-terror" measures pursued by its occupying powers, the United States and Britain, are under fire from the United Nations for undermining international human rights standards.

Proposed anti-terror laws in Britain, trials of terror suspects by the U.S. military, and Iraq's special tribunal to try former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and members of his Ba'ath Party regime all violate global standards, according to U.N. experts on international human rights law.


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