On 20 July, President Bush signed an Executive Order on the application of common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions to a detention and interrogation programme operated by the CIA. Several NGOs criticized the order for affirming that the programme complies with US obligations under article 3, when the order fails to prohibit secret detention.
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