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UN: Secret U.S. Prisons Must Be Investigated

HeadlineJun 30, 2005

A top United Nations official is calling for an investigation into allegations that the Bush administration is holding detainees in secret prisons around the world including on U.S. military ships. The UN’s special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, called on the Bush administration to hand over a list of where prisoners are being held. Nowak said the charges of secret detention camps were very serious, amounting to enforced disappearances.

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