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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<strong>Delivered</strong> <strong>Into</strong> <strong>Enemy</strong> <strong>Hands</strong><br />
US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi’s Libya<br />
When rebel forces overtook Tripoli in August 2011, prison doors were opened and office files exposed, revealing startling new<br />
information about Libya’s relations with other countries. One such revelation, documented in this report, is the degree of<br />
involvement of the United States government under the Bush administration in the arrest of opponents of the former Libyan<br />
leader, Muammar Gaddafi, their subsequent torture and other ill-treatment in US custody, and their forced rendition to Libya.<br />
<strong>Delivered</strong> into <strong>Enemy</strong> <strong>Hands</strong>: US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi’s Libya is based on <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong><br />
interviews with more than a dozen former members of an anti-Gaddafi Libyan Islamist group who, after September 11, 2001,<br />
were swept up in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and sent back to Libya, mostly between 2004 and 2006. At the time, the<br />
United States and the United Kingdom were trying to transform Gaddafi from foe to ally.<br />
The report also documents allegations of torture and other serious ill-treatment committed by US personnel in US secret<br />
detention sites in Afghanistan. These include a newly reported case of waterboarding and another case of similar water torture.<br />
The report also details the mistreatment of these men back in Libya, where they endured solitary confinement, other abuses,<br />
and long prison sentences following unfair trials.<br />
<strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> calls on the US, the UK, and other governments involved in these renditions to investigate the alleged<br />
abuses. The US should provide a full accounting of its extensive secret detention program, enable victims to obtain redress, and<br />
prosecute those responsible for authorizing the mistreatment.<br />
hrw.org<br />
A file folder found after the fall of Tripoli in a<br />
building belonging to the Libyan external<br />
security services containing faxes and memos<br />
between the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)<br />
and the Libyan Intelligence Service.<br />
© 2011 Tim Grucza