Canada puts US on Torture Watchlist

The Canadian Foreign Ministry produced a training manual that has Guantanamo Bay on its sites of torture spots.

The document goes further, and lists the U.S. as a potential site for torture, along with Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, China, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

This revelation comes via counsel for Omar Khadr, who obtained the documents.

An American spokesperson said,

The United States does not permit, tolerate, or condone torture under any circumstances.

But the report lists techniques commonly used by the U.S. and classifies them as torture.

University of Ottawa law professor, Dr. Amir Attaran, said,

That clashes terribly with what Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said, that Mr. Khadr, who is in Guantanamo Bay and was a child at the time he was put there, is being given an ‘ appropriate judicial process’. Torture is not an appropriate judicial process.

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