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Red Cross Criticizes Secret U.S. Detention Centers

HeadlineJul 14, 2004

The international Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday it believes the U.S. is holding detainees at secret jails around the world. Under the Geneva Conventions, the United States is obliged to give the neutral, Swiss-run Red Cross access to prisoners of war and other detainees to check on their conditions and allow them to send messages to their families. We’ll have more on this later in the show.

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