Red Cross Given Location of Secret Somali Prison Used by CIA

Publisher:
Democracy Now
Publication Date:
13 July 2011
Tags:
Somalia, Human Rights, NGOs and Civil Society, United States, Canada and Africa

Democracy Now! correspondent and The Nation investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill provides an International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson with the location of the secret prison used by the CIA he uncovered in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, which the Red Cross says it didn't know existed. "There are scores of people that have been held without charge in this basement and some for more than 18 months," Scahill says. "The Red Cross should be insisting on access to the prison, which is within a Somali government compound." Published with written permission from democracynow.org.

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