CIA ‘sent prisoners to Jordan’
Rights group says 14 men were transferred to Jordan to be tortured and interrogated.
country to another, usually in secrecy, without the benefit of open legal
proceedings.
“We’ve documented more than a dozen cases in which prisoners were sent to Jordan for torture” Joanne Mariner, Human Rights Watch |
The group said Jordan commonly tortured suspects by given them extended beatings on the soles of their feet.
Russia were rendered to Jordan.
Five of the men who had been sent to Jordan are now in US custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it added.
Inquiry urged
One part of the report details a note written by a rendered prisoner – reportedly since transferred to the Guantanamo Bay – while in Jordanian custody in late 2002 which refers to his ill treatment.
Ali al-Hajj al-Sharqawi wrote that GID interrogators beat him “in a way that does not know any limits”.
“They threatened me with electricity, with snakes and dogs … [They said] we’ll make you see death … They threatened to rape me,” it said.
The group urged the US government to discontinue the CIA’s rendition program and urged Jordan to open an inquiry into its intelligence department’s alleged use of torture and ill-treatment.
Human Rights Watch said its report was based on first hand information from former Jordanian prisoners who had been detained with the non-Jordanian terrorism suspects.