Off the record: U.S. Responsibility for Enforced Disappearances in the “War on Terror”

Off the Record provides the most comprehensive list of these individuals, who are believed to have been subject to an enforced disappearance for which the United State s bears responsibility. Based on research by six major human rights groups—Amnesty International, Cageprisoners, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law, Human Rights Watch and Reprieve—Off the Record identifies individuals believed to have been held at some point by the United States in secret sites, all of whom remain missing. Off the Record provides new information about detainees already identified as “disappeared and names four missing detainees for the first time.  It reveals the extent to which the United States illegally uses “proxy detention” to empty its secret sites and demonstrates that far from targeting the “worst of the worst,” the system sweeps up low-level detainees and even involves the detention of the wives and children of the “disappeared,” in violation of their human rights. Off the Record also documents allegations concerning the treatment of detainees while in secret detention, including torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Glossary

Executive Summary

Introduction

List of Detainees

Detention of family members of detainees, including children

Recommendations