Cageprisoners.com
22nd December 2006, 09:05 PM
"They only lived their childhood years with the family…the memory of them remained that of their childhood years"
(Relative of Yousef al-Shehri, Saudi detained in Guantanamo)
Beyond the Law: The War on Terror's Secret Network of Global Detentions
Revealed: Over 100 Prisons identified worldwide for illegal detention in ‘War on Terror’
Disappearances in the War on Terror have formed an integral part of the Bush administration’s programme of secret detention. This latest report by Cageprisoners: Beyond the Law: The War on Terror’s Secret Network of Global Detentions, highlights the wide-reaching extent of those countries that house these detainees, generally at the behest of the US government. The report shows that out of the 120 prisons identified worldwide, 72 have been, or are currently being used by the US to interrogate detainees.
By piecing together statements of released detainees, work of investigative journalists and human rights organisations, we provide the most definitive and up to date list of prisons used in the ‘War on Terror.’
Commenting on the findings of the report, Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, wrote,
“…Cageprisoners publishes a comprehensive report which reveals the systematic practice of enforced disappearances in a global network of secret places of detention.”
Further the Chair of the British Institute of Human Rights, Geoffrey Bindman, states that in the policies of the War on Terror,
“This report is directed at one glaringly disgraceful element in that strategy: the detention without charge or trial and the physical abuse of those suspected of involvement in terrorism.”
The release of the report aims to catalyse the process of bringing transparency to a situation deliberately shrouded in obscurity. Deliberately denying prisoners access to open courts or any semblance of justice, whilst being tortured and coerced into giving false confessions is not befitting of any civilised society. It is imperative that transparency swiftly be brought to this process, so that the innocent can pick up the remains of their shattered lives and be returned to their loved ones.
The report consists of a list of detention facilities, an accompanying document to explain the terms and provide analysis of the findings, and finally a map, pinpointing the network of ghost detention sites worldwide:
Beyond the Law – Report [PDF] [HTML] (http://www.cageprisoners.com/BeyondtheLaw.htm)
Beyond the Law – List of Prisons [PDF] (http://www.cageprisoners.com/beyondthelaw_prisonlist.pdf) [HTML]
(http://www.cageprisoners.com/beyondthelaw_map.pdf)Beyond the Law – Map of Global Network: [PDF]
(http://www.cageprisoners.com/beyondthelaw_map.pdf)
Cageprisoners launch new prisons section
(http://www.cageprisoners.com/prisons.php)
Interviews
Interview with Trevor Paglen (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17914)
Trevor Paglen is currently a Ph.D. candidate in geography at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the co-author (with A.C. Thompson) of "Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA Rendition Flights", the first book to systematically investigate the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, whereby suspected terrorists are simply kidnapped by the CIA without trial or any due process whatsoever and frequently detained and interrogated (invariably under torture), either by the CIA itself or by cooperative third countries. Messrs. Paglen and Thompson ostensibly "reverse engineered" the program using data collected by "planespotters", accounts of those few men who have been released from the CIA "black prison" network and foreign dungeons in such locations as Afghanistan, Morocco, Syria and elsewhere, and through investigating stateside CIA front companies, from rural airfields in North Carolina to suburban law offices in Massachusetts and Nevada.
Events
Moazzam Begg - UK Events (Winter 2006) (http://www.cageprisoners.com/campaigns.php?id=416)
14-12-06, Warrington
Guantanamo Chain Gang Goes to Downing Street (http://www.cageprisoners.com/)
16-12-06, Amnesty International
On 16 December a Guantanamo chain-gang will arrive at Downing Street as part of a fresh call for the UK government to help eight UK residents held without charge or trial at Guantanamo Bay. The letter hand-in, which comes as part of Amnesty International's international day of action on Guantánamo, will be made by relatives of the imprisoned men.
Legal Protection in the War on Terror (http://www.cageprisoners.com/campaigns.php?id=427)
15-12-06, 3:30-5:30pm, Australia
Major Michael Mori - Military defence lawyer for David Hicks
Free Omar Walk (http://www.cageprisoners.com/campaigns.php?id=428)
Brighton to London, Saturday 16th December to Tuesday 19th December
Glenn Williams and Sally Griffiths, Brighton anti-war and human rights activists, will be walking from Brighton to London to demand that Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett allows Omar Deghayes, in his fourth year of detention without trial at Guantanamo Bay, home to Brighton.
Downloads
Slideshow: Campaigning Against Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan (http://www.cageprisoners.com/download.php?download=511)
Amnesty International
Interview with Rabia Khan (http://www.cageprisoners.com/download.php?download=510)
Wife of former ghost detainee, now held in Guantanamom, Majid Khan. Amnesty International
Articles
Pinochet is Gone, But His Methods Are Still With Us (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17917)
by Adnan Siddiqui and Victoria Brittain
A new report collating first-hand accounts gives us the clearest view yet of the torture going on in the US's secret prisons
My Worst Moment As A Lawyer (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17844)
by Sabin Willet
My worst moment as a lawyer took place on August 30, 2006, at the stroke of noon, just as I was leaving Echo One, an interrogation cell at Guantanamo Bay.
Abusive Interrogations: A Defining Difference Between Psychiatrist and Psychologists (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17920)
by Stephen Soldz
Ever since the United States government decided to deviate from accepted international and American standards of treatment of prisoners of war and other detainees in its Global War on Terror, the participation of health professionals in coercive interrogations of detainees has posed a fundamental moral issue for these, supposedly "helping," professions.
UN Human Rights Day: A Beacon for All Americans Troubled by Torture (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17936)
by Alfred L McCoy
It is with pride that I stand beneath this dome, the symbolic center of a State that has stood, for over a century, as a beacon for Justice, Liberty Good Government. But it is a pride that, sadly, must be tempered with shame on this day--a day when we affirm our commitment to the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights which condemns torture as a cruel transgression against the human person.
Routine and Systematic Torture is at the Heart of America's War on Terror (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17900)
by George Monbiot
In the fight against cruelty, barbarism and extremism, America has embraced the very evils it claims to confront
Jose, Victim of a Sinister New America (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17901)
by Andrew Sullivan
Jose Padilla was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1970, the son of Puerto Rican immigrants. He was a troubled youth, joining a street gang when the family moved to Chicago, and was once jailed for aggravated assault.
A High Price for Gitmo Injustice (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17845)
by Neal Katyal
The Pentagon's recent disclosure that it is diverting $125 million from the defense budget to build a courthouse at Guantanamo is the latest salvo in a wasteful way to bring terrorists to justice.
Impunity and Immunity (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17850)
by Karen Greenberg
Confession, the time-honored, soul-soothing last resort for those caught in error, may not survive the Bush administration. It has, after all, long made a mockery of such revelations by manufacturing an entire lexicon of coercive techniques to elicit often non-existent "truths" that would justify its detention policies.
Working To Stop Human Rights Violations in the ‘War on Terror’ (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17842)
by Amnesty International
In cooperating with the US-led "war on terror", the Pakistani government has committed human rights violations against hundreds of Pakistani and foreign nationals. Hundreds of people have been arbitrarily arrested and detained in secret; becoming victims of enforced disappearance.
[More Articles at Cageprisoners.com (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?type=Articles)]
News
GUANTANAMO
Hicks Among First Prosecuted, US Promises (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17926)
U.S. Officer Hands in Report on Guantanamo Abuse Probe (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17888)
U.S. Postpones Guantanamo Building Plans (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17889)
New Charges For Hicks Soon (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17875)
Thousands Rally To Bring Hicks Home (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17858)
New Guantanamo Prison Condemned (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17863)
Guantanamo Detainees Going to New Prison (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17834)
GHOST
Arar Report Prompts New Probes of Three Others Jailed, Tortured Abroad (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17929)
CCR Files Appeal in Maher Arar's US Rendition Case (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17930)
Missing Afghan National’s Case: PHC Chief Justice Takes Exception To Mysterious Disappearances (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17921)
Another Missing Man Released in NWFP (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17923)
'Rendition' of Terrorism Suspects Such as Arar May Be Legal, Canada Says (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17908)
Italy Court Hears Arguments on CIA Case in January (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17909)
The CIA and The Militant Who Eluded It in Norway (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17864)
UK
Reid Proposes Terror Department To Create 'Seamless Intelligence' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17927)
Terror Stop and Search Questioned (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17907)
Reid Says Two Terror Suspects Still on the Run (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17911)
Treatment of Muslims ‘Echoes Jews Under Nazis’ (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17890)
Britain Stops Talk of 'War on Terror' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17893)
Radical Muslims Must Integrate, Says Blair (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17852)
Ian Blair Cleared By Inquiry Into De Menezes Shooting Tragedy (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17861)
US
Banned Islamic Charity Sues US Government (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17922)
New Ashcroft Book Alleges L.A. Terror Plots (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17894)
Yemeni Leader Slapped With 5-Year Sentence (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17895)
Lawyers Hope Photos Will Free Jose Padilla (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17853)
US Man Arrested in 'Grenade Plot' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17865)
MISCELLANEOUS
Australia's Forgotten Prisoner (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17924)
Dispute Over 'Terrorist' Deaths (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17928)
Departing Annan Attacks Bush's 'War on Terror' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17913)
Turkey Seizes 'al-Qaeda Members' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17880)
Egypt Deports 'Terror Suspects' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17855)
Iraq 'Terror Chief' Seized (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17856)
US Sanctions Five 'Terror Facilitators' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17862)
German Skull Troops Avoid Charges (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17838)
[More News on the War on Terror at Cageprisoners.com (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?type=News)]
(Relative of Yousef al-Shehri, Saudi detained in Guantanamo)
Beyond the Law: The War on Terror's Secret Network of Global Detentions
Revealed: Over 100 Prisons identified worldwide for illegal detention in ‘War on Terror’
Disappearances in the War on Terror have formed an integral part of the Bush administration’s programme of secret detention. This latest report by Cageprisoners: Beyond the Law: The War on Terror’s Secret Network of Global Detentions, highlights the wide-reaching extent of those countries that house these detainees, generally at the behest of the US government. The report shows that out of the 120 prisons identified worldwide, 72 have been, or are currently being used by the US to interrogate detainees.
By piecing together statements of released detainees, work of investigative journalists and human rights organisations, we provide the most definitive and up to date list of prisons used in the ‘War on Terror.’
Commenting on the findings of the report, Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, wrote,
“…Cageprisoners publishes a comprehensive report which reveals the systematic practice of enforced disappearances in a global network of secret places of detention.”
Further the Chair of the British Institute of Human Rights, Geoffrey Bindman, states that in the policies of the War on Terror,
“This report is directed at one glaringly disgraceful element in that strategy: the detention without charge or trial and the physical abuse of those suspected of involvement in terrorism.”
The release of the report aims to catalyse the process of bringing transparency to a situation deliberately shrouded in obscurity. Deliberately denying prisoners access to open courts or any semblance of justice, whilst being tortured and coerced into giving false confessions is not befitting of any civilised society. It is imperative that transparency swiftly be brought to this process, so that the innocent can pick up the remains of their shattered lives and be returned to their loved ones.
The report consists of a list of detention facilities, an accompanying document to explain the terms and provide analysis of the findings, and finally a map, pinpointing the network of ghost detention sites worldwide:
Beyond the Law – Report [PDF] [HTML] (http://www.cageprisoners.com/BeyondtheLaw.htm)
Beyond the Law – List of Prisons [PDF] (http://www.cageprisoners.com/beyondthelaw_prisonlist.pdf) [HTML]
(http://www.cageprisoners.com/beyondthelaw_map.pdf)Beyond the Law – Map of Global Network: [PDF]
(http://www.cageprisoners.com/beyondthelaw_map.pdf)
Cageprisoners launch new prisons section
(http://www.cageprisoners.com/prisons.php)
Interviews
Interview with Trevor Paglen (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17914)
Trevor Paglen is currently a Ph.D. candidate in geography at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the co-author (with A.C. Thompson) of "Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA Rendition Flights", the first book to systematically investigate the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, whereby suspected terrorists are simply kidnapped by the CIA without trial or any due process whatsoever and frequently detained and interrogated (invariably under torture), either by the CIA itself or by cooperative third countries. Messrs. Paglen and Thompson ostensibly "reverse engineered" the program using data collected by "planespotters", accounts of those few men who have been released from the CIA "black prison" network and foreign dungeons in such locations as Afghanistan, Morocco, Syria and elsewhere, and through investigating stateside CIA front companies, from rural airfields in North Carolina to suburban law offices in Massachusetts and Nevada.
Events
Moazzam Begg - UK Events (Winter 2006) (http://www.cageprisoners.com/campaigns.php?id=416)
14-12-06, Warrington
Guantanamo Chain Gang Goes to Downing Street (http://www.cageprisoners.com/)
16-12-06, Amnesty International
On 16 December a Guantanamo chain-gang will arrive at Downing Street as part of a fresh call for the UK government to help eight UK residents held without charge or trial at Guantanamo Bay. The letter hand-in, which comes as part of Amnesty International's international day of action on Guantánamo, will be made by relatives of the imprisoned men.
Legal Protection in the War on Terror (http://www.cageprisoners.com/campaigns.php?id=427)
15-12-06, 3:30-5:30pm, Australia
Major Michael Mori - Military defence lawyer for David Hicks
Free Omar Walk (http://www.cageprisoners.com/campaigns.php?id=428)
Brighton to London, Saturday 16th December to Tuesday 19th December
Glenn Williams and Sally Griffiths, Brighton anti-war and human rights activists, will be walking from Brighton to London to demand that Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett allows Omar Deghayes, in his fourth year of detention without trial at Guantanamo Bay, home to Brighton.
Downloads
Slideshow: Campaigning Against Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan (http://www.cageprisoners.com/download.php?download=511)
Amnesty International
Interview with Rabia Khan (http://www.cageprisoners.com/download.php?download=510)
Wife of former ghost detainee, now held in Guantanamom, Majid Khan. Amnesty International
Articles
Pinochet is Gone, But His Methods Are Still With Us (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17917)
by Adnan Siddiqui and Victoria Brittain
A new report collating first-hand accounts gives us the clearest view yet of the torture going on in the US's secret prisons
My Worst Moment As A Lawyer (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17844)
by Sabin Willet
My worst moment as a lawyer took place on August 30, 2006, at the stroke of noon, just as I was leaving Echo One, an interrogation cell at Guantanamo Bay.
Abusive Interrogations: A Defining Difference Between Psychiatrist and Psychologists (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17920)
by Stephen Soldz
Ever since the United States government decided to deviate from accepted international and American standards of treatment of prisoners of war and other detainees in its Global War on Terror, the participation of health professionals in coercive interrogations of detainees has posed a fundamental moral issue for these, supposedly "helping," professions.
UN Human Rights Day: A Beacon for All Americans Troubled by Torture (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17936)
by Alfred L McCoy
It is with pride that I stand beneath this dome, the symbolic center of a State that has stood, for over a century, as a beacon for Justice, Liberty Good Government. But it is a pride that, sadly, must be tempered with shame on this day--a day when we affirm our commitment to the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights which condemns torture as a cruel transgression against the human person.
Routine and Systematic Torture is at the Heart of America's War on Terror (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17900)
by George Monbiot
In the fight against cruelty, barbarism and extremism, America has embraced the very evils it claims to confront
Jose, Victim of a Sinister New America (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17901)
by Andrew Sullivan
Jose Padilla was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1970, the son of Puerto Rican immigrants. He was a troubled youth, joining a street gang when the family moved to Chicago, and was once jailed for aggravated assault.
A High Price for Gitmo Injustice (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17845)
by Neal Katyal
The Pentagon's recent disclosure that it is diverting $125 million from the defense budget to build a courthouse at Guantanamo is the latest salvo in a wasteful way to bring terrorists to justice.
Impunity and Immunity (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17850)
by Karen Greenberg
Confession, the time-honored, soul-soothing last resort for those caught in error, may not survive the Bush administration. It has, after all, long made a mockery of such revelations by manufacturing an entire lexicon of coercive techniques to elicit often non-existent "truths" that would justify its detention policies.
Working To Stop Human Rights Violations in the ‘War on Terror’ (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17842)
by Amnesty International
In cooperating with the US-led "war on terror", the Pakistani government has committed human rights violations against hundreds of Pakistani and foreign nationals. Hundreds of people have been arbitrarily arrested and detained in secret; becoming victims of enforced disappearance.
[More Articles at Cageprisoners.com (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?type=Articles)]
News
GUANTANAMO
Hicks Among First Prosecuted, US Promises (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17926)
U.S. Officer Hands in Report on Guantanamo Abuse Probe (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17888)
U.S. Postpones Guantanamo Building Plans (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17889)
New Charges For Hicks Soon (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17875)
Thousands Rally To Bring Hicks Home (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17858)
New Guantanamo Prison Condemned (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17863)
Guantanamo Detainees Going to New Prison (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17834)
GHOST
Arar Report Prompts New Probes of Three Others Jailed, Tortured Abroad (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17929)
CCR Files Appeal in Maher Arar's US Rendition Case (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17930)
Missing Afghan National’s Case: PHC Chief Justice Takes Exception To Mysterious Disappearances (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17921)
Another Missing Man Released in NWFP (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17923)
'Rendition' of Terrorism Suspects Such as Arar May Be Legal, Canada Says (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17908)
Italy Court Hears Arguments on CIA Case in January (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17909)
The CIA and The Militant Who Eluded It in Norway (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17864)
UK
Reid Proposes Terror Department To Create 'Seamless Intelligence' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17927)
Terror Stop and Search Questioned (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17907)
Reid Says Two Terror Suspects Still on the Run (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17911)
Treatment of Muslims ‘Echoes Jews Under Nazis’ (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17890)
Britain Stops Talk of 'War on Terror' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17893)
Radical Muslims Must Integrate, Says Blair (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17852)
Ian Blair Cleared By Inquiry Into De Menezes Shooting Tragedy (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17861)
US
Banned Islamic Charity Sues US Government (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17922)
New Ashcroft Book Alleges L.A. Terror Plots (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17894)
Yemeni Leader Slapped With 5-Year Sentence (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17895)
Lawyers Hope Photos Will Free Jose Padilla (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17853)
US Man Arrested in 'Grenade Plot' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17865)
MISCELLANEOUS
Australia's Forgotten Prisoner (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17924)
Dispute Over 'Terrorist' Deaths (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17928)
Departing Annan Attacks Bush's 'War on Terror' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17913)
Turkey Seizes 'al-Qaeda Members' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17880)
Egypt Deports 'Terror Suspects' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17855)
Iraq 'Terror Chief' Seized (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17856)
US Sanctions Five 'Terror Facilitators' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17862)
German Skull Troops Avoid Charges (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17838)
[More News on the War on Terror at Cageprisoners.com (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?type=News)]