US Releases List of 645 Detainees Held at Bagram Air Base
Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 4:31 pm
US Releases List of 645 Detainees Held at Bagram Air Base, The United States has released a long-secret list of 645 detainees held at a military base in Afghanistan.
The identities and descriptions of the detainees at Bagram Air Base had been sought by the American Civil Liberties Union. In response to the lawsuit, the government released roughly 2,000 pages of documents yesterday evening. The list could help the non-Afghan detainees at the base challenge their detention in US courts, although it contains only their names, not nationalities or the circumstances of their capture. The Afghan government has agreed on a plan to take over responsibility for the prison at Bagram, where there have been allegations of human rights abuses. US and Afghan officials said the hand-over could occur by the end of the year.
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