via Direland
...Tonight's evening news broadcast on French public television carried an account of "Terror in the Hands of Justice," a series that is running twice a day on Al Iraqiya, the state-controlled television financed by the U.S., and operated under a contract to a major Republican party contributor. This is one of the most appalling TV shows one could possibly imagine, for it blatantly encourages lynch-mob justice and individual acts of revenge against alleged "terrorists"--who are presented as such without benefit of any trial or judicial proceeding....
Download -WMP only-In French (hat tip HF)
Click here to read translation: (Thanks to M.A. Mack)
Reporter: Between confessions, the channel broadcasts the crimes in question, often executions, a true incitement of hatred because the program never supplies proof of guilt. Even worse, the confessions may be obtained under pressure, even if the director of the channel denies it....read on
The display on television of prisoners without their consent violates their rights under the Geneva Convention--all the more so when individual and mob violence against those prisoners is incited by the TV show on which they appear.
