US: Secret CIA Prisoners Still Missing
Washington Should Reveal Fate of People ‘Disappeared’ by US
(New York, February 27, 2007) – The US government should account for all the missing detainees once held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The 50-page report, “Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIA Detention”, contains a detailed description of a secret CIA prison from a Palestinian former detainee who was released from custody last year. Human Rights Watch has also sent a public letter to US President George W. Bush requesting information about the fate and whereabouts of the missing detainees.
“President Bush told us that the last 14 CIA prisoners were sent to Guantanamo, but there are many other prisoners ‘disappeared’ by the CIA whose fate is still unknown”, said Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director at Human Rights Watch. “The question is: what happened to these people and where are they now?”
In early September, 14 detainees were transferred from secret CIA prisons to military custody at Guantanamo Bay. In a televised speech on September 6, President Bush announced that with those 14 transfers, no prisoners were left in CIA custody.
The former CIA detainee, Marwan Jabour, told Human Rights Watch about a number of other people who were in CIA detention but whose present whereabouts are unknown. Jabour saw one of these men, Algerian terrorism suspect Yassir al-Jazeeri, as recently as July 2006 in CIA custody.
“The Bush administration needs to provide a full accounting of everyone who was ‘disappeared’ into CIA prisons, including their names, locations, and when they left US custody”. Mariner said. MORE
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/02/26/usint15408.htm
Ghost Prisoner
Two Years in Secret CIA Detention
http://hrw.org/reports/2007/us0207
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The US psychological torture system is finally on trial
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Dirk Adriaensens: “The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib”
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=3198&blz=1
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Washington Should Reveal Fate of People ‘Disappeared’ by US
(New York, February 27, 2007) – The US government should account for all the missing detainees once held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The 50-page report, “Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIA Detention”, contains a detailed description of a secret CIA prison from a Palestinian former detainee who was released from custody last year. Human Rights Watch has also sent a public letter to US President George W. Bush requesting information about the fate and whereabouts of the missing detainees.
“President Bush told us that the last 14 CIA prisoners were sent to Guantanamo, but there are many other prisoners ‘disappeared’ by the CIA whose fate is still unknown”, said Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director at Human Rights Watch. “The question is: what happened to these people and where are they now?”
In early September, 14 detainees were transferred from secret CIA prisons to military custody at Guantanamo Bay. In a televised speech on September 6, President Bush announced that with those 14 transfers, no prisoners were left in CIA custody.
The former CIA detainee, Marwan Jabour, told Human Rights Watch about a number of other people who were in CIA detention but whose present whereabouts are unknown. Jabour saw one of these men, Algerian terrorism suspect Yassir al-Jazeeri, as recently as July 2006 in CIA custody.
“The Bush administration needs to provide a full accounting of everyone who was ‘disappeared’ into CIA prisons, including their names, locations, and when they left US custody”. Mariner said. MORE
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/02/26/usint15408.htm
Ghost Prisoner
Two Years in Secret CIA Detention
http://hrw.org/reports/2007/us0207
Please also see:
Hope on the Horizon ? Not Likely
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=3131&blz=1
The US psychological torture system is finally on trial
America has deliberately driven hundreds, perhaps thousands, of prisoners insane. Now it is being held to account in a Miami court
Naomi Klein
Friday February 23, 2007
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2019580,00.html
Dirk Adriaensens: “The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib”
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=3198&blz=1
Al-Jazeera Cameraman Still at Guantanamo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6435812,00.html
THE DETENTION OF AP PHOTOGRAPHER BILAL HUSSEIN
http://www.ap.org/response/response_092006a.html
'NYT' Embed Dispute Highlights Rule Problems
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003540789
In US, record numbers are plunged into poverty: report
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/In_US_record_numbers_are_plunged_in_02242007.html
Study: 16 Million Americans in Dire Poverty
http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1443
Number of Americans in Extreme Poverty Has Grown 26% under Bush
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0227-02.htm