The location of approximately forty prisoners held at CIA secret prisons is still unknown to the public, ProPublica reported Wednesday. The memos released last week showing that the Bush administration approved harsh interrogation techniques, confirmed that one prisoner, Hassan Ghul, was interrogated in a secret prison, but the CIA denies ever holding Ghul and his location remains a secret. The same is true for many war on terror prisoners. President Bush publicly acknowledged the CIA secret programs in 2006 and moved 14 prisoners “with little or no additional intelligence value” from secret prisons to Guantanamo Bay. (Pro Publica)A federal judge will allow an Afghan citizen held at Guantanamo Bay to challenge his detention in U.S. court, the ACLU said Wednesday. Mohammed Jawad, who was 16 or 17 when arrested, is charged with killing two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter in a 2002 grenade attack. A lawyer for the ACLU said that the judge’s ruling supported the long-standing right to challenge indefinite imprisonment in U.S. courts under habeas corpus. The lawyer called for a prompt trial because Jawad’s “mental and physical well-being continue to be jeopardized by the harsh conditions in which he is being held at Guantanamo.” (Reuters)
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