03/03/11 (B593) Djibouti invité à s’expliquer par la Commission africaine pour les Droits humains sur son rôle et sa contribution au programme de la CIA de détention secrète…. (En Anglais)
Source al-Asad
by Mathias Vermeulen
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights should require Djibouti to answer for abuses it committed as part of the CIA’s secret detention and rendition program, said the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at NYU School of Law and the international human rights law organization, INTERIGHTS in a legal filing today.
The two organizations urged the African Commission to officially accept the first-ever international case exposing an African country’s role in the U.S. rendition, secret detention, and torture program. The casemade public todaywas confidentially filed in December 2009 on behalf of their client, Mohammed al-Asad, a Yemeni national who was detained in Djibouti in December 2003 and January 2004 as part of the CIA’s secret detention and rendition program.
In addition to secretly detaining al-Asad, Djibouti was responsible for transferring him into the black site prison program, where he spent some sixteen months in secret and incommunicado detention. In May 2005, al-Asad was transferred to Yemen, where he resides freely today.
To read the complaint in al-Asad’s case, click here