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Detainees and Other U.S. Post 9/11 Policies U.S.: Soldiers Tell of Detainee Abuse in Iraq Abusive Techniques Were Authorized, Soldiers’ Complaints Ignored Torture and other abuses against detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq were authorized and routine, even after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, according to new accounts from soldiers in a Human Rights Watch report released today. The new report, containing first-hand accounts by U.S. military personnel interviewed by Human Rights Watch, details detainee abuses at an off-limits facility at Baghdad airport and at other detention centers throughout Iraq. July 23, 2006 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Human Rights Watch Statement to the Human Rights Committee During its Consideration of the Second and Third Periodic Reports of the United States During its consideration of the Second and Third Periodic Reports of the United States, Human Rights Watch would like to draw the Committee’s attention to three subjects: treatment of detainees, rendition to torture and diplomatic assurances, and the death penalty and life without parole sentencing of child offenders. July 13, 2006 Testimony Printer friendly version Human Rights Watch Submission to the Human Rights Committee Human Rights Watch Supplemental Submission to the Human Rights Committee During its Consideration of the Second and Third Periodic Reports of the United States In January 2006, Human Rights Watch submitted a list of issues for the Human Rights Committee’s reference while posing questions to the United States about its adherence to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (the “ICCPR”). Since that submission, the United States has enacted or begun to undertake new laws, policies, and practices that reflect the continuing failure of the U.S. to fulfill its obligations under the ICCPR. Oulined here are some of those developments, as well as some additional issues that HRW believes are central to the Committee’s work. July 12, 2006 Press Release Printer friendly version U.S.: Pentagon Applies Geneva Rules to Detainees Those in CIA Custody Must Also Be Covered The Bush administration’s belated decision to recognize the applicability of the Geneva Conventions to terrorism suspects in military custody is a step forward, Human Rights Watch said today. But because the Pentagon memorandum that codifies the change does not extend to detainees held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), it represents only partial compliance with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. July 11, 2006 Press Release Printer friendly version Questions and Answers on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision soon in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. The following Questions & Answers can help observers understand the case. June 23, 2006 Special Focus Printer friendly version U.N. Torture Committee Critical of U.S. (Geneva, May 19, 2006) The United Nations Committee against Torture today issued a strong and thorough critique of the U.S. record on torture. Human Rights Watch urged the United States to adopt the committee’s recommendations. May 19, 2006 Press Release Printer friendly version U.S. Fails to Comply With Ban on Torture U.N. Committee Challenges U.S. on Treaty Obligations A high-level U.S. delegation’s exchange with the U.N. Committee against Torture reveals that the United States is failing to meet its international obligations to end torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. The committee is expected to issue its conclusions and recommendations on U.S. practices by the end of this week. May 17, 2006 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version U.S.: Bush Should Close Guantanamo Now President George W. Bush should shut the Guantanamo Bay detention facility now and not wait for a Supreme Court ruling. May 9, 2006 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Questions and Answers: United States Before the Committee Against Torture For the first time since the Bush administration launched its global campaign against terrorism, the United States this week will answer internationally for its record on torture. On May 5 and May 8, the United Nation’s Committee Against Torture will question some 30 high-level officials from the Departments of State, Justice, Homeland Security, and Defense on U.S. compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. May 4, 2006 Special Focus Printer friendly version Human Rights Watch Supplemental Submission to the Committee Against Torture During its Consideration of the Second Periodic Report of the United States In August 2005, Human Rights Watch submitted a list of questions for the Committee to inquire of the United States. Since our last submission, the United States has enacted or begun to undertake new laws, policies, and practices that reflect the continuing failure of the U.S. to fully accept its obligations under the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. We outline here some of those developments, and hope the Committee will consider these matters as well. We also wish to apprise the Committee of relevant new research that Human Rights Watch has completed since our last submission. May 4, 2006 Testimony Printer friendly version By the Numbers Findings of the Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project This 27-page report presents findings of the Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project, a joint project of New York University’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First. The project is the first comprehensive accounting of credible allegations of torture and abuse in U.S. custody in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo. HRW Index No.: G1802 April 26, 2006 Report Download PDF, 248 KB, 29 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release HRW Statement on Jose Padilla Case Today, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen picked up on U.S. soil and held as an enemy combatant for more than three years without charge and without an opportunity to defend himself. The Supreme Court’s refusal to address this case on the merits means that the Bush administration’s assertion that it can unilaterally and indefinitely detain without charge anyone, anywhere, on the grounds that they are an “enemy combatant” remains unchecked. April 24, 2006 Special Focus Printer friendly version U.S.: Rumsfeld Potentially Liable for Torture Defense Secretary Allegedly Involved in Abusive Interrogation Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could be criminally liable for the torture of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay in late 2002 and early 2003, Human Rights Watch said today. April 14, 2006 Press Release Printer friendly version Open Letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales More than 100 professors of law and legal studies sent an open letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today, criticizing his failure to condemn as illegal a number of abusive interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, exposure of detainees to extreme temperatures, forced standing, binding in stress positions, and severe sleep deprivation. The letter, whose signatories included several former government attorneys, asks Gonzales to issue a clear public statement regarding the humane treatment of detainees overseas, and to clarify that abuses such as waterboarding are subject to prosecution as crimes. April 6, 2006 Letter Printer friendly version Who's Really Locked up in Guantanamo? Last week, under court order, the Pentagon released the transcripts of several hundred hearings held to decide whether Guantanamo prisoners were in fact "enemy combatants." Classified evidence was deleted, but what emerges is how insignificant most of these prisoners are. March 16, 2006 Commentary Printer friendly version Statement of Human Rights Watch to the United Nations Human Rights Committee United States Compliance with the ICCPR Jennifer Daskal, advocacy director, U.S. Program, comments on the United States' Compliance with the ICCPR ito the United Nations Human Rights Committee on March 13, 2006. March 14, 2006 Testimony Printer friendly version Brief of Amicus Curiae International Human Rights Organizations Supreme Court of the United States, January 6, 2006 The detention and military commission systems created by the Executive to hold and try persons seized in the “war on terror” and implemented at the United States Naval Station in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (“Guantánamo”) violate the well-established norms of international humanitarian law embodied in binding treaties and customary international law. The 1949 Geneva Conventions afford persons held in military custody individual primary rights that are enforceable under the Supremacy Clause and by means of a writ of habeas corpus. These well-established protections are also independently enforceable in federal court as binding rules of customary international humanitarian law. The United States has misguidedly departed from these fundamental guarantees. January 6, 2006 Amicus Briefs Preventing Abuse of Material Witness Detentions S.1739 and Companion Legislation in the House of Representatives The misuse of the material witness warrant statute to indefinitely detain individuals without charge threatens all of our liberties. The pending legislation is a step forward – one that is critical to protecting our liberties against future abuse. January 3, 2006 Special Focus Printer friendly version U.S. Operated Secret ‘Dark Prison’ in Kabul Accounts from detainees at Guantánamo reveal that the United States as recently as last year operated a secret prison in Afghanistan where detainees were subjected to torture and other mistreatment. December 19, 2005 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version U.S.: Landmark Torture Ban Undercut Congress Would Allow Evidence Obtained by Torture Even as the U.S. Congress has passed a prohibition against the use of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, it is set to adopt legislation that would strip the judiciary’s ability to enforce the ban, Human Rights Watch warned today. December 16, 2005 Press Release Printer friendly version |
 Related Materials:
The September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on
Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the
September 11 Attacks (June 2003)
Supplemental Report on September 11 Detainees' Allegations of Abuse at
the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York (December 2003)
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