Revealed: the plight of prisoners caught up in US rendition
As George Bush's America continues it's disgraceful campaign of extraordinary rendition, three men who have been through the process, give a remarkable insight into what it entails.
The report of their time in captivity, which is released today by Amnesty international, details the extraordinary lengths their US captors went to in order to ensure that hte men never knew which country they were being held in.The three men, none of whom was ever charged with any terrorism-related offence, were seized in 2003 and then held in four secret locations by "black-masked ninja" US operatives who made considerable efforts to ensure the prisoners did not know where they were being held. They were eventually released about a month ago.
While it remains unclear where exactly the men were held, human rights campaigners who interviewed them believe they were held in Djibouti, Afghanistan and somewhere in eastern Europe. It was alleged last year that the CIA had been operating covert "black site" prisons in Romania and Poland.
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