Since they are secret, I don't know where they are. ... Whether this is in Europe or in North Africa or in, I don't know where, in Afghanistan, that of course I don't know.
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Fact-finding on the spot has to include interviews with detainees. What's the sense of going to a detention facility and doing fact-finding when you can't speak to the detainees It's just nonsense.
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The only condition that we did not accept was that we would have no access to detainees and I am very confident that since we accepted the invitation in the spirit of compromise, the United States will compromise,
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I think that described very, very well the situation. You get very, very weak because of not being able to move, and being in this particular position, of course, your whole body starts hurting. He endured it, but he felt, and I would agree, that this was torture.
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It only means that there is need for an impartial and independent investigation.
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That torture is still practiced in Iraq after Saddam Hussein, that is no secret. It is shocking, but on the other hand, we have received allegations of these secret (detention) places in Iraq already for quite a long time.
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