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| US Releases Names of Bagram Detainees | ||
| 2010-01-17 | ||
| The US government Friday released a long-secret list of some 645 detainees held at Bagram military base in Afghanistan. The list was just a small part of roughly 2,000 pages of documents that were released related to various lawsuits seeking government papers about detainees. The identities of the detainees at Bagram air base had been sought by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The nationalities as well as the date the inmates were captured have been blacked out in the list. ACLU lawyer Melissa Goodman said the government should also provide the details of how the inmates were captured and why they are being held. "Hundreds of people have languished at Bagram for years in horrid and abusive conditions, without even being told why they're detained or given a fair chance to argue for release," Goodman said. "This is completely unprecedented, we've never had access to the list," said Ramzi Kassem, a law professor at City University of New York who represents a Yemeni man, Amin al Bakri, who was captured in Thailand in 2002 and sent to Bagram.
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| Posted by:Fred |