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A/<strong>HRC</strong>/<strong>13</strong>/<strong>42</strong><br />

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CONTENTS<br />

Paragraphs<br />

Page<br />

I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 1 - 7 10<br />

II. SECRET DETENTION UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW .......... 8 - 56 11<br />

A. Terminology................................................................................. 8 - 16 11<br />

B. Secret detention and international human rights law<br />

and international humanitarian law.............................................. 17 - 56 14<br />

III. SECRET DETENTION PRACTICES IN PAST CONTEXTS ........ 57 - 97 28<br />

A. The emergence of the recent practice of secret detention ........... 57 - 59 28<br />

B. The recent practice of secret detention ....................................... 60 - 86 29<br />

C. The United Nations and regional responses towards the<br />

outlawing of the practice of secret detention .............................. 87 - 97 40<br />

IV. SECRET DETENTION PRACTICES IN THE GLOBAL<br />

“WAR ON TERROR” SINCE 11 SEPTEMBER 2001 ..................... 98 - 162 43<br />

A. The “high-value detainee” programme and CIA<br />

secret detention facilities ............................................................ 103 - <strong>13</strong>0 45<br />

B. CIA detention facilities or facilities operated jointly with<br />

United States military in battle-field zones ................................. <strong>13</strong>1 - 140 59<br />

C. Proxy detention sites ................................................................... 141 - 158 69<br />

D. Complicity in the practice of secret detention ............................ 159 81<br />

E. Secret detention and the Obama administration ......................... 160 - 164 85<br />

V. THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF SECRET DETENTION<br />

PRACTICES IN RELATION TO CONTEMPORARY<br />

REGIONAL OR DOMESTIC COUNTER-TERRORIST<br />

EFFORTS ........................................................................................... 165 - 281 89<br />

A. Asia ............................................................................................. 167 - 201 89<br />

B. Central Asia ................................................................................ 202 - 206 102

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