Joanne Mariner
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Joanne Mariner is the terrorism and counterterrorism director at Human Rights Watch. An expert on U.S. counterterrorism laws and policies, she testified last year before the European Parliament about CIA activities in Europe. She is a graduate of Yale Law School.

Her latest report for Human Rights Watch is Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIA Detention.

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39 Missing Prisoners

Posted June 10, 2007 | 15:56:49 (EST)

"What was previously just a set of allegations is now proven," begins an official European investigative report released on Friday. Terrorism suspects were "abducted from various locations around the world," subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques" by CIA interrogators, and "held in secret prisons."

The report, issued by the Council...

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The CIA's "Disappeared"

Posted February 27, 2007 | 18:18:06 (EST)

On the first morning of what ended up being more than two years in CIA custody, Marwan Jabour was brought into a room full of people. He was completely naked, he later told Human Rights Watch, and all the hair on his head and face had been shaved off. He...

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