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US: Leading Human Rights Groups Name 39 CIA "Disappeared" Detainees & Three Groups File Lawsuit Seeking Information about "Ghost" Detention

01 June 2007

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Briefing: Off the record: US responsibility for enforced disappearances in the "war on terror", full-text with names (pdf)

In the most comprehensive accounting to date, six leading human rights organisations today published a briefing paper revealing the names and details of 39 people who are believed to have been held in secret US custody and whose current whereabouts remain unknown.

The list - drafted by Amnesty International, Cageprisoners, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law, Human Rights Watch, and Reprieve - provides new names of missing detainees, new information about those known to be disappeared, and names relatives of suspects who were themselves detained in secret prisons, including children as young as seven.

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