USA: Investigation, prosecution, remedy: Accountability for human rights violations in the ‘war on terror’

USA: Investigation, prosecution, remedy: Accountability for human rights violations in the ‘war on terror’

This document outlines the importance of immediately initiating effective independent criminal investigations, including into crimes under international law such as torture and enforced disappearance committed by individuals acting for or on behalf of the USA; removing potential obstacles in existing US law to successful investigation and prosecution of all such cases; and ultimately bringing perpetrators to justice. Any prosecutions must be conducted in independent and impartial courts applying international fair trial standards, without recourse to the death penalty.