International Commission of Jurists

USA: District Court accepts evidence allegedly obtained by torture

Dec 8, 2005

On 22 November, a US District Court in Virginia convicted US citizen Ahmed Abu Ali of conspiracy to commit terrorist act, rejecting his claims that his video confession, on which the prosecution relied almost exclusively, had been obtained by torture. Abu Ali had been...

USA: ICRC refused access to secret detainees

Dec 8, 2005

The US State Department has acknowledged that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) does not have access to all prisoners held in US custody and insisted that the ICRC will not be provided such access because terrorist suspects are not entitled to...

USA: CIA sued over “extraordinary rendition”

Dec 8, 2005

Former CIA director George Tenet and other CIA officials are being sued under the US Alien Tort Claims Act, by a German citizen, Khaled El-Masri, who claims to have been wrongfully abducted by the CIA in Macedonia and transported to a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan...

USA: Senator McCain and White House agree on torture ban amendment

Dec 8, 2005

President Bush has said he will now accept the amendment proposed by Senator McCain to ban the use of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners by US personnel anywhere in the world. In another development, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice stated during a...
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