Amnesty International attacks US 'disappearances'
Peter Walker
The Guardian (UK)
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
The United States' reported use of secret CIA-run prisons for terrorism suspects amounts to a policy of "disappearances", human rights watchdog Amnesty International said today in its annual report.
In a sometimes scathing assessment of Washington's rights record, the London-based group also raised serious concerns about detainees held without trial in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Washington had failed to bring to account those potentially guilty of war crimes or crimes against humanity, it added.
(The rest of the story is here.)
The Guardian (UK)
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
The United States' reported use of secret CIA-run prisons for terrorism suspects amounts to a policy of "disappearances", human rights watchdog Amnesty International said today in its annual report.
In a sometimes scathing assessment of Washington's rights record, the London-based group also raised serious concerns about detainees held without trial in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Washington had failed to bring to account those potentially guilty of war crimes or crimes against humanity, it added.
(The rest of the story is here.)
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