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New Version of US Document Regulating Drone Strikes Welcome but Obscure

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The redacted version of the US paper outlining the government's policy framework for drone strikes outside the United States was a welcome but an obscure step, US Amnesty International said in a statement Saturday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The US authorities released the renewed version of the 2013 Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG) on Saturday.

"The Obama administration’s disclosures are welcome but they only tell part of the story, and obscure disturbing practices. We still know extremely little about the standards that would govern signature strikes and so-called rescuer strikes, which have involved potentially unlawful killings," Security and Human Rights Program Director for the US Amnesty International Naureen Shah said as quoted in the statement.

Shah stressed that the Obama administration had still failed to provide data required to assess the drone program, particularly information on people killed in the strikes.

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