Yemeni describes CIA secret jails

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[quote=[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7292974.stm]BBC News[/url]]

Yemeni describes CIA secret jails


A Yemeni man has described being held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons, or "black sites", around the world and accused the US of torture.


Khaled al-Maqtari told Amnesty International he was held in isolation for more than 28 months without charge or access to any legal representation.


He said he first became a US "ghost detainee" at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq after being arrested there in 2004.


The US has not acknowledged detaining Mr Maqtari.


US President George W Bush did acknowledge the existence of black sites in 2006.


He said the prisons were a vital tool in the US "war on terror" and insisted that the CIA had treated detainees humanely and had not used torture. ...[/quote]


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