President Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA operatives violates international law, the UN's top torture investigator said. Manfred Nowak, an Austrian law professor who serves as a special rapporteur for the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, said the United States had committed itself under the U.N. Convention against Torture to make torture a crime and to prosecute those suspected of engaging in it. |
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