Amnesty International Reveals New CIA 'Disappearance' Case That Began in Abu Ghraib
14 Mar 2008 01:01 Africa/Lagos Amnesty International Reveals New CIA 'Disappearance' Case That Began in Abu Ghraib Former Detainee Was Held More Than 2 Years in "Black Site," Human Rights Organization Reports WASHINGTON, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Amnesty International today exposed in a new report, "From Abu Ghraib to secret CIA custody: The case of Khaled al-Maqtari," further details of the cruelty and illegality of the CIA program of secret detentions and enforced disappearances -- a program re-authorized by President Bush in June 2007. In an exclusive to Amnesty International, 31-year-old Yemeni national Khaled Abdu Ahmed Saleh al-Maqtari recounted his ordeal as one of the men most recently released from secret detention in May 2007. Initially a "ghost detainee" at Abu Ghraib, he was transferred to CIA custody in Afghanistan, then held in unknown locations and in complete isolation for more than two and a half years, without ch...