Mark Danner, US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites. The New York Review of Books. 9 April 2009. “The [ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen “High Value Detainees” in CIA Custody by the International Committee of the Red Cross, February 2007] is based on extensive interviews, carried out in October and December 2006, with fourteen so-called “high-value detainees,” who had been imprisoned and interrogated for extended periods at the “black sites,” a series of secret prisons operated by the CIA in a number of countries around the world, including, at various times, Thailand, Afghanistan, Poland, Romania, and Morocco.” From footnote #2 in Mark Danner’s The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means. (The sequel to US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites.) The New York Review of Books, 30 April 2009.
April 9, 2009
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites
April 9, 2009 Filed Under: Law, National Security, Terrorism, Torture, War/War crimes Tagged With: abu zubaydah, central intelligence agency (cia) detention program, continuous solitary confinement, convention against torture, geneva conventions, george w. bush, international committee of the red cross (icrc), network of black sites, torture memorandum by john yoo and jay bybee