21 Quotes by Manfred Nowak

Torture and ill treatment are systematically practiced in Nepal by the police, armed police and the Royal Nepal Army in order to extract confessions and to obtain intelligence, among others things,

Fact-finding on the spot has to include interviews with detainees. What's the sense of going to a detention facility and doing fact-finding when you can't speak to the detainees? It's just nonsense.

Either they should be released or brought before an independent court in the U.S. or in the country of origin to be judged there.

Every secret place of detention is usually a higher risk for ill treatment, that the danger of secrecy.

They say they have nothing to hide. If they have nothing to hide, why should we not be able to speak with detainees?

It only means that there is need for an impartial and independent investigation.

It makes no sense (to go). You cannot do a fact-finding mission without talking to the detainees.

In forced feeding of hunger-strikers, if the accusations are true, the ways and means reach the level of torture.

If there is a substantial risk in a certain country like Algeria, Jordan, Egypt, etc., then diplomatic assurances cannot be used. If a country usually and systematically practices torture, then of course they would deny they were doing it because it is absolutely prohibited.