Tuesday, April 8, 2008

CIA Rendered 14 Prisoners to Jordan


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The CIA secretly transported at least 14 war on terror detainees to Jordan between 2001 and 2004, making it the top “rendition” destination at that time, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

“While a handful of countries received persons rendered by the United States during this period, no other country is believed to have held as many as Jordan,” the rights group said in a statement.

The prisoners were interrogated and tortured by Jordan’s General Intelligence Department, according to a new Human Rights Watch report that documents eight previously unknown cases of rendition.

GID officials who met with Human Rights Watch in Amman in 2007 denied receiving CIA prisoners and denied using torture. The group said the denials were unconvincing “given the weight of credible evidence showing otherwise.”

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