US Holding 27,000 in Secret Overseas Prisons
Transporting Prisoners to Iraqi Jails to Avoid Media & Legal Scrutiny
By Democracy Now!
"There is a huge number of [secret prisoners] being held in Iraq, and one of the intriguing aspects of this that doesn't get much reporting is that the US is bringing people into Iraq from elsewhere to hold them there, simply because that keeps [the media and lawyers] away from the prisoners so they can't get any sort of legal rights," reports British attorney Clive Stafford Smith.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19960.htm
US: 500 youths detained in Iraq
Civil liberties groups such as the International Justice Network and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) denounced the detentions as abhorrent, and a violation of U.S. treaty obligations.
http://www.fortmilltimes.com/106/story/168093.html
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prison
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Clive+Stafford+Smith
By Democracy Now!
"There is a huge number of [secret prisoners] being held in Iraq, and one of the intriguing aspects of this that doesn't get much reporting is that the US is bringing people into Iraq from elsewhere to hold them there, simply because that keeps [the media and lawyers] away from the prisoners so they can't get any sort of legal rights," reports British attorney Clive Stafford Smith.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19960.htm
US: 500 youths detained in Iraq
Civil liberties groups such as the International Justice Network and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) denounced the detentions as abhorrent, and a violation of U.S. treaty obligations.
http://www.fortmilltimes.com/106/story/168093.html
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prison
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Clive+Stafford+Smith
rudkla - 21. Mai, 08:19
