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'People have disappeared'
07/06/2007 22:17 - (SA)
New York - Six human rights groups say a number of people secretly detained by the United States in its global war on terrorism have "disappeared."
The report also detailed how children and wives of many suspects were held for months at a time to gain information about suspects.
Three of the groups have filed a lawsuit in a US federal court under the Freedom of Information Act seeking disclosure of information related to the 39 people they believed have disappeared from secret US custody.
The joint action by the six leading human rights groups was made public by the New York-based Human Rights Watch in a 21-page briefing paper titled "Off the record: US responsibility for enforced disappearances in the War on Terror."
The paper provided names and details of the prisoners believed held by the Central Intelligence Agency since the terrorist attacks against the US in September 2001.
The detainees are nationals from Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan and Spain, who were arrested in Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia and Sudan and transferred to US-run detention centres.
- SAPA
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