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The Raw Story | US flouts human rights with secret prisons, torture: HRW

The Raw Story | US flouts human rights with secret prisons, torture: HRW: "The United States continues to violate basic human rights by keeping secret detention facilities abroad, holding people illegally as 'disappeared' and justifying torture, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday.

The Human Rights Watch World Report 2008 found no improvement in the human rights situation in the United States, despite efforts by the US Congress to end the alleged abuses carried out in its war on terrorism.

'There was no evident progress concerning the treatment of so-called enemy combatants, including those held at Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), or the use of secret detention facilities' in foreign countries, HRW said.

The Pentagon in 2007 released more than 100 'war on terror' detainees held in the prison facility at the US Navy base in eastern Cuba, but 305 continue to be imprisoned there, most of them without having been formally charged."

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