In response to the United Nations convention against torture The statute applies to anyone committing torture outside of the United States.
美国反对虐待的传统制定的这条法律适用于任何在美国境外实施虐待的人
When they are acting under quote "colour of law" if the offender is a US national or the offender is at any time present in the United States so this.
只要他们在"以法律的名义"行动只要犯罪者是美国国民或者在任何时候到过美国
Could also provide also provide a tool for prosecuting private contractors for torture provided that they are acting under the.
这也可以为惩处雇佣人员虐囚事件提供强大的武器只要他们是以
Colour of law It might also have an application in terms of going after private military corporations themselves for conspiracy if their.
法律的名义行动的这也可以应用到相关的私人军事企业上 如果他们的
Agents are engaged in torture To date there's only been one indictment under the anti-terrorist statute and that's for Chuckey.
代理人涉嫌虐囚的话 直至目前在反恐法下只有一条对虐待的起诉是指控利比亚前领导人的儿子Chuckey
Taylor the son of the former leader of Liberia who was indicted in September 2006 for using torture against his father's political opponents.
Taylor在2006年九月虐待父亲的政敌
So these two statutes do provide a legal basis for pursuing torture charges against contractors who are US nationals, harm US nationals or.
所以说这里有两条法律为惩处身为美国国民的雇佣人员伤害美国国民或现在在美国的人
Present in the United States Not covered under these laws are foreign nations working for private military corporations whose victims are.
提供法律依据没有被这两条法律包括进去的是为私人军事公司工作的外国人而
Foreigners unless they are present in the United States and had been acting under the colour of law .
受害者又不是美国人 当时身处美国以及以法律的名义行动除外所以在进一步讨论之前 我想要看一下
So before I discuss that situation further I'm going to look at other laws that could be used to prosecute contractors for offences that may not rise to the level of torture but are nonetheless.
惩处不构成虐待的行为的法律但是这些行为一定是侵害
Human rights violations and also for the purpose of this talk I'm avoiding a specific definition of torture that's obviously something.
人权的为了这个目的我并没有给虐待下一个明确的定义因为那是这周末
That will be subject of much of the discussion of the weekend and Mr Brody touched on that as well So the first of these is the Military.
要讨论的话题Brody先生也提到了这个话题所以首先是2000年的领土外