Tuesday, October 26, 2010
US Court Backs Secrecy on Bagram Jail
A US court has ruled that American military can keep secret key information about hundreds of its detainees taken and held at its prison facility in Afghanistan.
The ruling came in response to a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against the US Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency. The lawsuit sought the disclosure of information about detainees held at Bagram military base in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon has released the names of nearly 650 prisoners detained there as of September 2009.'
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