{"id":1075,"date":"2007-04-04T12:29:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T18:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2017-06-06T06:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T12:04:32","slug":"imprisoned-us-citizen-being-tortured-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/imprisoned-us-citizen-being-tortured-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Imprisoned U.S. Citizen Being Tortured in Ethiopia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/torture-freedom1.jpg\" > <img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/torture-freedom.thumbnail1.jpg\" alt=\"torture-freedom.jpg\" align= \"left\"\/><\/a>By ANTHONY MITCHELL, AP<br \/>\n NAIROBI, Kenya &#8211; CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaida militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and abuse, according to an investigation by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups, lawyers and several Western diplomats assert hundreds of prisoners, who include women and children, have been transferred secretly and illegally in recent months from Kenya and Somalia to Ethiopia, where they are kept without charge or access to lawyers and families.<\/p>\n<p>The detainees include at least one U.S. citizen and some are from Canada, Sweden and France, according to a list compiled by a Kenyan Muslim rights group and flight manifests obtained by AP.<\/p>\n<p>(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ANTHONY MITCHELL, AP NAIROBI, Kenya &#8211; CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaida militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and abuse, according to an investigation by The Associated Press. 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