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Watch the Experts Discuss Abu Ghraib - Lionel Barber & Herta Daubler

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See highlights of a panel discussion featuring international human rights activists at the Berlin Film Festival—Diplomacy in the Age of Terror: The Impact of Diminished Rule of Law on International Relations. The panel discussed the consequences of alleged U.S. violations of the Geneva Conventions and strategies for moving forward.

The panel consisted of:

* Moderator Olivia Schoeller, Washington Bureau Chief for the Berliner Zeitung

* Dr. Allen Keller, Medical Director MD of the Bellevue/NYU program for Survivors of Torture

* Lord Peter Goldsmith, former UK Attorney General

* Wolfgang Kaleck, General Secretary for the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights

* Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times

* Herta Däubler-Gmelin, Chairwoman of the Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Parliament

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