Source:
http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/mar-summary-eng
*Abuses in the context of the 'war on terror'*
New allegations surfaced about Morocco's role in the US-led "war on terror".
In December a Council of Europe investigator said that he believed some
prisoners previously held by the USA in Europe had been moved to North
Africa, possibly Morocco, a month earlier. Morocco denied the claim.
However, the allegation echoed previous reports that the USA had sent
detainees to Morocco for interrogation.
- Information emerged about the case of Benyam Mohammed al-Habashi, an
Ethiopian national. He was arrested and detained in April 2002 by Pakistani
officials in Pakistan, and said that he was handed over to US officials in
July 2002 and then flown to Morocco. He alleged that he was held
incommunicado there for the next 18 months and systematically tortured at
the behest of US authorities, before being taken to Afghanistan and then to
the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where he remained held at the end
of the year.