The UN prepares for the opening of an investigation of clandestine detention centers used by the CIA as part of the “war on terror,” according to the agency’s spokesperson on torture. “We call on all governments to cooperate, not only to clarify the facts, but also so that no secret detention facilities will be used in the future,” said Manfred Nowak. Nowak has described the use of prisons by the CIA after September 11 as ‘one of the most horrible.’

UN experts have expressed confidence that US President Barack Obama will put an end to the mandate and practice of illegally transferring terrorist suspects for interrogation under torture. In this regard, he argued that the previous US government used such transfers of detainees to secret detention centers.

According to Nowak, detainees were sent to countries known to practice torture. Similarly, the UN spokesperson on counter-terrorism, Martin Scheinin, said that with the new administration in Washington, people can expect real change in ending the most horrendous forms of the practice of transfers. In this regard, Scheinin added that “in some countries, the intelligence service is a state within a state” with little outside control of their activities.

Yet another chapter of this war on terror is about to be disclosed, hopefully revealing soon to the world the complex machinery that had been in place to address the matter of terror, especially post-9/11.

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Via France24