Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Human Rights Watch Release Major New CIA Prisons Report

Our friends at Human Rights Watch have just released a major new report on the CIA Black Prison Complex titled: Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIA Detention
Their key recommendations are very important and well worth noting:

The US government should:

  • Repudiate the use of secret detention and coercive interrogation as counterterrorism tactics and permanently discontinue the CIA’s detention and interrogation program;
  • Disclose the identities, fate and whereabouts of all detainees previously held at facilities operated or controlled by the CIA since 2001.

Other governments should:

  • Refuse to assist or cooperate in any way with CIA detention, interrogation and rendition operations, and disclose any information that they may have about such operations.
The Washington Post covered the story and report on the front page today - once again showing that momentum is building on the torture/detention issues.