Detention appeal against George W. Bush

Amnesty International urged the Canadian authorities to arrest and prosecute George W. Bush as former U.S. president to allow torture when he ordered the US-led war against terrorism.
Bush expected to attend the economic summit in Surrey, British Columbia, the westernmost region of Canada, on October 20.
Amnesty International is headquartered in London demanding the legal responsibility of the Bush administration over a series of violations of human rights in a memorandum filed last month to the Government of Canada, but only recently published media.
"Canada's international obligation to arrest and prosecute former President Bush for his responsibility for crimes under international law including torture," said Susan Lee of Amnesty International in a statement.
"Because the United States Government has so far not dragging former President Bush to court, the international community must act. The failure of Canada to take action during his visit would violate the UN Convention on Torture and an affront to fundamental human rights," said Lee.
Amnesty International, which is supported by the International Civil Liberties Observer Group, said, Bush authorized the implementation of "advanced interrogation techniques" and "waterboarding torture" of detainees held in secret prisons by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) between 2002 and 2009.
Detention program includes "torture and other cruel, inhuman treatment and humiliation (such as forced to remain silent for hours in painful positions and sleep deprivation), as well as enforce disappearances," the group said.
Amnesty International's memorandum mentions a number of cases of torture of a few individuals at the naval detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, in Afghanistan and in Iraq by the U.S. military.
These cases include Zayn al-Abidin experienced by Muhammed Husayn (known as Abu Zubaydah) and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Both men were arrested in Pakistan and had at least 226 torture waterboarding from 2002 to 2003. Amnesty International expressed it by citing CIA inspector general's report.
Waterboarding is interrogation techniques by tying the hands and face detention before then forcibly drowned her head into the water.