http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080314/pl_usnw/amnesty_international_reveals_new_cia__disappearance__case_that_began_in_abu_ghraibFormer Detainee Was Held More Than 2 Years in "Black Site," Human Rights Organization Reports
WASHINGTON, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Amnesty International today exposed in a new report, "From Abu Ghraib to secret CIA custody: The case of Khaled al-Maqtari," further details of the cruelty and illegality of the CIA program of secret detentions and enforced disappearances -- a program re-authorized by President Bush in June 2007.
In an exclusive to Amnesty International, 31-year-old Yemeni national Khaled Abdu Ahmed Saleh al-Maqtari recounted his ordeal as one of the men most recently released from secret detention in May 2007. Initially a "ghost detainee" at Abu Ghraib, he was transferred to CIA custody in Afghanistan, then held in unknown locations and in complete isolation for more than two and a half years, without charge or trial or access to any form of due process. His statements include numerous allegations of torture and other ill-treatment.
"Khaled al-Maqtari's account is one more shameful chapter in the Bush administration's war on terror playbook," said Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA executive director. "Mr. al-Maqtari's descriptions of being subjected to international crimes including enforced disappearance and torture are terrible and disgraceful for the United States government. Equally reprehensible is that none of these allegations are known to have ever been investigated, nor has anyone been held accountable."
The report will also be available online starting March 14 at
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/013/2008/enYemeni describes CIA secret jails
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