We will always have Paris
Both France and the US ratified the 1984 Convention against Torture, so Rumsfeld's acceptance of French jurisdiction (trip to France to do a stand-up on the foreign policy rubber chicken circuit) leads to this -- French courts have jurisdiction to prosecute him for having ordered and authorized torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere.
Today the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) along with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and the French League for Human Rights (LDH) filed a complaint with the Paris Prosecutor before the "Court of First Instance" (Tribunal de Grande Instance) charging former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with ordering and authorizing torture.
Le Monde notes in dispatches that Le parquet de Paris a fait savoir en fin de matinée que la plainte était "en cours d'examen".
Comments
exxxxcellent.
Posted by: nezua limón xolagrafik-jones | October 26, 2007 10:33 AM
What a crock. Well strike that country off the tourist list.
Posted by: dude1394 | October 27, 2007 09:13 AM
Wise travel planning dude, assuming you share Rummy's liabilities and were SECDEF in a prior life.
Posted by: ebw | October 27, 2007 11:55 AM
Nice shot, ebw.
Posted by: brantl | October 29, 2007 07:37 AM