Amendment sought to require the video recording of interrogations and other pertinent interactions between U.S. military personnel, or contractors, and detainees arrested and held.

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Amendment Number
198
Description
Amendment sought to require the video recording of interrogations and other pertinent interactions between U.S. military personnel, or contractors, and detainees arrested and held.
Purpose
An amendment numbered 32 printed in House Report 110-151 to require the videotaping of interrogations and other pertinent interacti ons between U.S. military personnel and/or contractors and detainees arrested and held. Directs the Judge Advocates General of the respective military services to develop uniform guidelines for such videotaping. Provides access to detainees for representatives of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture for independent monitoring of detainee conditions and treatment.
Congress
110
Type
HAMDT
Latest Action Date
May 17, 2007
Latest Action Text
On agreeing to the Holt amendment (A016) Failed by recorded vote: 199 - 229 (Roll no. 371). (consideration: CR H5347-5348; text: CR H5347)
Latest Action Time
12:01:41
Submitted Date
May 16, 2007
Chamber
House of Representatives
Update Date
Nov 15, 2019
Amendment 198 — Informed