Delivered Into Enemy Hands - Human Rights Watch

Key Recommendations
To the United States Government
• Consistent with its obligations under the Convention against Torture, investigate
credible allegations of torture and ill-treatment since September 11, 2001 and implement
a system of compensation to ensure all victims can obtain redress.
• Acknowledge past abuses and provide a full accounting of every person that the
CIA has held in its custody pursuant to its counterterrorism authority since 2001,
including names, dates they left US custody, locations to which they were transferred,
and their last known whereabouts.
• Create an independent, nonpartisan commission to investigate the mistreatment of
detainees in US custody anywhere in the world since September 11, 2001, including
torture, enforced disappearance, and rendition to torture.
To the Government of the United Kingdom
• Provide a full accounting of the involvement of British security services in the detention
or transfer of individuals to other countries without due process since
September 11, 2001.
• Set up a new, judge-led inquiry into the UK’s involvement in detainee abuse and
renditions to torture with full independence from the government and authority to
allow it to establish the truth.
To the Government of Libya
• Promptly investigate all allegations of torture and ill-treatment in detention facilities
run by the state and armed groups in a thorough and impartial way.
• Hold accountable all those responsible for using torture or ill-treatment against
persons in custody.
To the Governments of Pakistan, the Netherlands, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand,
Chad, Mauritania, Mali, Morocco, and Sudan
• Conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into the role each government
played in either the detention and abuse or the transfer or rendition of individuals
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