U.S. Kidnapped and Sent Up to 150 to Possible Torture Sites

Human Rights Watch also criticizes the military's investigations of the way it treats foreign detainees.

By Richard A. Serrano L A Times Staff Writer April 24, 2005

WASHINGTON — Human Rights Watch (HRW) have been investigating allegations of prisoner abuse and will report today that since the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. agents have secretly transported up to 150 detainees to countries that practice torture.

Such transporting, known as “rendition,” (AKA Kidnapping) is more widespread than the US Gubment has reported, according to HRW. I year after the earliest revelations of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal by Seymour Hersh, the group said the renditions, along with abuses of foreign detainees by U.S. forces, were violations of international law.

The group also said an Army investigation clearing top U.S. military commanders of wrongdoing in the scandal at Abu Ghraib in Baghdad established the need for an outside inquiry.
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