Delivered Into Enemy Hands - Human Rights Watch
Delivered Into Enemy Hands - Human Rights Watch
Delivered Into Enemy Hands - Human Rights Watch
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To the United States Government<br />
Recommendations<br />
• Consistent with obligations under the Convention against Torture, investigate cred-<br />
ible allegations of torture and ill-treatment since September 11, 2001 and<br />
implement a system of compensation to ensure all victims can obtain redress.<br />
• Acknowledge past abuses and provide a full accounting of every person that the<br />
CIA has held in its custody pursuant to its counterterrorism authority since 2001,<br />
including names, dates they left US custody, locations to which they were transferred,<br />
and their last known whereabouts.<br />
• Ensure that any person subject to rendition abroad has the right, prior to transfer,<br />
to challenge its legality before an independent tribunal, including any diplomatic<br />
assurances made; to legal counsel; and to appeal a transfer before it is carried out.<br />
• Prohibit reliance upon diplomatic assurances against torture and ill-treatment (and<br />
make public the procedures used to ensure compliance) if there is any credible evidence<br />
the person subject to transfer faces a risk of torture or other ill-treatment.<br />
• Include in required periodic reports to the Committee against Torture, the <strong>Human</strong><br />
<strong>Rights</strong> Committee, and other relevant international and regional monitoring bodies<br />
detailed information about all cases in which requests for diplomatic assurances<br />
against the risk of torture or other ill-treatment have been sought or secured in respect<br />
to a person subject to transfer.<br />
To the President of the United States<br />
• Direct the attorney general to begin a criminal investigation into US government<br />
detention practices and interrogation methods since September 11, 2001, including<br />
the CIA detention program. The investigation should examine the role of US officials,<br />
no matter their position or rank, who participated in, authorized, ordered, or<br />
had command responsibility for torture or ill-treatment and other unlawful detention<br />
practices, including enforced disappearance and rendition to torture or other<br />
ill-treatment.<br />
• Make publicly available the August 2009 report of the Special Task Force on Interrogation<br />
and Transfers (an inter-agency task force set up by the Obama<br />
administration in January 2009).<br />
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