The U N special investigator on torture wants access to secret prisons!!

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GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations' special investigator on torture said Thursday he was certain that there are secret U.S. prisons operating in the world, and he wants access to them. "I am 100 percent sure. I have evidence," Manfred Nowak said in an interview with The Associated Press.

He cited a U.S. refusal to provide details or records of interrogations later used in terrorism trials in Germany. He did not explain how that was proof of the ongoing existence of U.S. prisons, and he did not offer other examples.

Allegations of clandestine U.S. detention centers in Europe have sparked separate investigations by the European Parliament and the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog.

"It is totally unacceptable, even in the fight against terrorism, that a highly democratic country such as the United States of America is keeping secret places of detention," said Nowak, an Austrian law professor who reports on torture allegations to U.N. rights bodies and the General Assembly.

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