Organization of American States Issued Opinion Declaring Kidnapping in Alvarez-Machain a Violation of International Law

The last week of August, the Inter-American Juridical Committee, an organ of the Organization of American States (O.A.S.), issued an opinion to the Permanent Council of the O.A.S. declaring that the kidnapping of Dr. Alvarez-Machain was a violation of international law in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of United States v. Alvarez-Machain…[more]