COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York, Chairman WILLIAM GOODLING, Pennsylvania STEVEN J. CHABOT, Ohio MARSHALL "MARK" SANFORD, South Carolina MATT SALMON, Arizona AMO HOUGHTON, New York TOM CAMPBELL, California JON FOX, Pennsylvania JOHN MCHUGH, New York LINDSEY GRAHAM, South Carolina ROY BLUNT, Missouri JERRY MORAN, Kansas LEE HAMILTON, Indiana MATTHEW G. MARTINEZ, California GROVER JOSEPH REES, Subcommittee Staff Director and Chief Counsel ROBERT R. KING, Democratic Professional Staff Member DOUGLAS C. ANDERSON, Counsel ELISE M. KENDERIAN, Staff Associate CONTENTS Mr. Martin O'Brien, Executive Director, Committee for the Administration Mr. Michael Posner, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee for Human Ms. Julia A. Hall, Northern Ireland Researcher, Human Rights Watch Mr. Stephen Livingstone, Co-Director, University of Nottingham Human Ms. Maryam Elahi, Advocacy Director, Middle East and Europe, Amnesty 25 29 Mr. Edward Wallace, National President, Ancient Order of Hibernians 167 174 Additional material submitted for the record: Statement by Sen. George Mitchell, "Peace Isn't Impossible," Newsweek, Amnesty International Report on the United Kingdom (1997) ......... Amnesty International, "Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment: De- |