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. These conventions proscribe unlawful and arbitrary detention, mandate due process guarantees and fair trial rights and prohibit torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Legal redress should be pursued individually and collectively on all of these grounds to the fullest extent possible. Family members of detainees, or detainees themselves once they are freed, should petition international, regional and national courts and U.N. bodies.
Unfortunately, options to hold states legally accountable are severely limited by long-standing principles of state immunity — which prohibit individuals from suing states. The U.S. and Canada allow victims of hostage-taking to sue states, but
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