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| Use of floating prisons claimed |
| By The Sydney Morning Herald |
| Published: 06/03/2008 |
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UNITED STATES - Human rights lawyers claim the United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror. The lawyers also claim there's been an effort to conceal the number and whereabouts of detainees, a report in Britain's Guardian newspaper says. Information about the operation of prison ships had emerged through a number of sources, including statements from the US military, the Council of Europe and related parliamentary bodies, and the testimonies of prisoners, the report said. The analysis - to be published later this year by the human rights group Reprieve - also claims there have been more than 200 new cases of rendition since 2006, when US President George W Bush declared that the practice had stopped. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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