Rights report cites U.S. and Egypt on torture

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and other countries have secretly sent scores of Islamist detainees to Egypt since the mid-1990s, where they have likely been tortured, a human rights group said on Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch issued a 53-page report criticizing Egypt as the world's main recipient of detainees, including suspected Islamist militants believed to offer useful intelligence for the U.S. war on terrorism.

The report, titled "Black Hole: The Fate of Islamists Rendered to Egypt," identifies 61 individuals who have been transferred into Egyptian custody since 1994. Nearly all are Egyptians suspected of Islamist militancy.

Two others were Yemenis transferred from Egypt, one to Yemen and another to U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=4&u=/nm/20050511/ts_nm/egypt_usa_torture_dc

[sniffa]

1. awesome!

how can we cLaim to hoLd the moraL high ground?

[mike_c]

2. the U.S. has pursued a foreign policy that is anything BUT moral...

...since the cold war, and really that was only a continuation of the injustices of the pre-WWII years. Moral high ground my ass.

[Roland99]

3. CIA involved in TWICE as many renditions after 9/11 as before.

[Solly Mack]

4. It's going to take a hell of a lot more to "take America back" than simply

ousting the republicans.


America has much to be ashamed of and much to be held accountable for...

[bennywhale]

5. And they wonder why tourists are not going to America

when they can be spirited away in a twilight zone of legality to their fate in a torture cell, with no recourse. Particularly those with brown skin and funny sounding names.

[HeeBGBz]

6. Rights report cites U.S. and Egypt on torture

Rights report cites U.S. and Egypt on torture

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and other countries have secretly sent scores of Islamist detainees to Egypt since the mid-1990s, where they have likely been tortured, a human rights group said on Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch issued a 53-page report criticizing Egypt as the world's main recipient of detainees, including suspected Islamist militants believed to offer useful intelligence for the U.S. war on terrorism.