More on the Swiss case.
[T]wo men who claim to have been victims of torture filed official complaints in Geneva, Switzerland, seeking a ruling on universal jurisdiction.[...]
The complaints, officially lodged Monday, ask the General Prosecutor of the Canton of Geneva to investigate evidence of a torture policy within the Bush administration.
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"Waterboarding is torture, and Bush has admitted, without any sign of remorse, that he approved its use," Katherine Gallagher, an attorney with the US-based nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a media advisory. "The reach of the Convention Against Torture is wide – this case is prepared and will be waiting for him wherever he travels next. Torturers – even if they are former presidents of the United States – must be held to account and prosecuted. Impunity for Bush must end."
The World Organization against Torture has said that Switzerland is obliged under both domestic and international law to open an inquiry for acts of torture against any individual on its territory complicit in such crimes.
"There are no laws that provide an exception for former head of states," it said in a statement Thursday.
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