Amnesty Int'l slams U.S. secret detentions

[Judi Lynn]

Amnesty Int'l slams U.S. secret detentions
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Amnesty International has called for an end to the U.S. practice of using secret prisons for interrogation of terror suspects.
In a report issued Thursday, the London-based group claimed two Yemeni men were held in U.S. secret detention in solitary confinement for more than a year and a half without seeing daylight, mostly shackled and in handcuffs, with no chance of communicating with their families, lawyers or humanitarian organizations.

Salah Nasser Salim Ali and Muhammad Faraj Ahmed Bashmilah, who were living in Indonesia, told Amnesty International they were separately detained, Salah in Indonesia in August 2003, Muhammad in Jordan in October 2003.

"We fear that what we have heard from these two men is just one small part of the much broader picture of U.S. secret detentions around the world," said Sharon Critoph, North America researcher at Amnesty International.

The CIA declined to comment on the report, but the agency is investigating allegations that the CIA hid prisoners from the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Financial Times reported.
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[etherealtruth]

1. The entire world (rightly) condemns this practice...

...I am ashamed that we have become "known" for this.

I want to be a resident of a country that does the right thing.

[rodeodance]

2. and to think that Bush threatened to veto a bill with an anti-torture amen

dment that McCain put up. Disgraceful.

[Judi Lynn]

3. The American Dream has become the American Nightmare.

Hope we get a chance to escape it.