Red Cross Fears US Is Hiding Detainees

[G_j]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0713-01.htm

Red Cross Fears US Is Hiding Detainees
by Naomi Koppel

GENEVA - The international Red Cross said Tuesday that it fears U.S. officials are holding terror suspects secretly in locations across the world.

The Geneva Conventions on the conduct of warfare require the United States to give the Red Cross access to prisoners of war and other detainees.

"We have access to people detained by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, but in our understanding there are people that are detained outside these places for which we haven't received notification or access," said Antonella Notari, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross.


"Some of these people who have been reported to be arrested never showed up in any of the places of detention run by the U.S. where we visit."



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[arwalden]

1. Ya Think? ---

KICK!!!

-- Allen

[G_j]

2. & the unfoldment of this story will also be missing in the American media

just as the detainees are missing to the Red Cross.

[ClassWarrior]

3. And they're abusing children in Iraqi prisons.

n/t

[G_j]

4. Hidden Prisons: U.S. Maintaining Global Network of Secret Detention

Hidden Prisons: U.S. Maintaining Global Network of Secret Detention Facilities *

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it fears the United States is hiding detainees in secret locations around the world and not granting access to them. We speak with the executive director of Human Rights First which issued a report last month entitled "Ending Secret Detentions" outlining the scope of the global network of U.S. prisons.

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/14/1410241