Manfred Nowak
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Manfred Nowak (b. Bad Aussee, 26 June 1950) is an Austrian human rights lawyer.[1]
Nowak is a Professor at the University of Vienna, where he is Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights.
Nowak was one of the judges of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina between March 1996 and December 2003. He was also the vice president of the Chamber between December 1997 and December 1998.
Nowak is currently the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, and was one of the five authors of a United Nations report on the detention of captives at the United States naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
In 2005 Nowak visited China, claiming that torture remained "widespread" there. He also complained of Chinese officials interfering with his work.[2]
In September 2006 he alleged that torture may be more of a problem in Iraq since the Iraq War than under Saddam Hussein's regime. Much of the torture, he argued, is carried out by security forces, militias and insurgents.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Manfred Nowak - Austria, World People's Blog, 10 January 2006, accessed 21 September 2006
- ^ "China torture 'still widespread'", BBC News Online, BBC, 2005-07-25. Retrieved on 2007-12-02.
- ^ Iraq torture 'worse after Saddam', BBC News, 21 September 2006, accessed 21 September 2006
[edit] External links
- The Road to Condemning Guantanamo (Post-World War II Revisionism and the European Zeal to Shut Down Guantanamo) by John Rosenthal (Claremont Institute), a character assassination on Nowak
- http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-terrorism/nowak_4249.jsp
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