Commandos Hold Afghan Detainees in Secret Jails
Updated 10 a.m., April 9 Under President Obama, the CIA is barred from holding terrorism detainees in secret prisons. Human Rights First's Daphne Eviatar tells Dozier that inmates at the JSOC sites are "forced to strip naked, then kept in solitary confinement in windowless, often cold cells with lights on 24 hours a day." Martins and other U.S. officers explained to me that "field detention sites" exist, where soldiers interrogate Taliban militants before either releasing them or sending them on to continued detention at the Parwan center. A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Simon Schorno, also told me last year that the Red Cross has access to "U.S.-run field detention sites in Afghanistan" as well as the Parwan center. Pamela Kunze, a spokeswoman for the U.S. detention command in Afghanistan, told me that "like our theater internment facilities, our field detention sites are all consistent with international and U.S. law and DoD policy, including Common Article III of the Geneva Conventions, the Detainee Treatment Act, the DoD Detainee Directive and the Army Field Manual."
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