E/CN.4/2006/120
page 2
CONTENTS
Paragraphs
Introduction ..............................................................................................
I.
1-5
4
THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK ....................................................
6 - 16
5
A.
Human rights and counter-terrorism measures ................
6-7
5
B.
The obligations of the United States of America
under international law ....................................................
8-9
5
Scope of the obligations of the United States of
America under international human rights law ...............
10 - 11
6
D.
Limitations and derogations ............................................
12 - 14
6
E.
The complementarity of international humanitarian
law and human rights law ................................................
15 - 16
7
ARBITRARY DETENTION AND INDEPENDENCE OF
JUDGES AND LAWYERS ........................................................
17 - 40
8
A.
Deprivation of liberty at Guantánamo Bay ......................
19 - 21
8
B.
Detainees captured in the course of an armed conflict ....
22 - 24
9
C.
Detainees captured in the absence of an armed
conflict .............................................................................
25 - 26
10
The right to challenge the legality of detention
before a judicial body ......................................................
27 - 29
10
The right to be tried by a competent and independent
tribunal .............................................................................
30 - 33
11
The right to a fair trial ......................................................
34 - 40
12
TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR
DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT ...................
41 - 56
14
A.
Lack of clarity/confusing rules ........................................
46 - 48
15
B.
Interrogation techniques ..................................................
49 - 52
16
C.
Conditions of detention ....................................................
53
17
C.
II.
D.
E.
F.
III.
Page