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The Village Voice: Nation: Liberty Beat: 'Just Give Me My Son' by Nat Hentoff
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'If they want to kill me, kill me,' Ms. Kudi said. 'Just give me my son.' "

Human Rights First's report ends, "U.S. policies that promote secrecy and lack of accountability have encouraged authoritarian regimes around the globe to commit abuses in the name of counterterrorism."

Among the examples cited: "in Zimbabwe (where President Mugabe, while voicing agreement with the Bush administration's policies in the 'war on terrorism,' declared foreign journalists and others critical of his regime 'terrorists' and suppressed their work)."

And "in China (where the Chinese government charged a peaceful political activist with terrorism and sentenced him to life in prison, leading the U.S. State Department to note 'with particular concern the charge of terrorism in this case, given the apparent lack of evidence [and] due process.' " The Chinese Communist leadership must have snickered at this rebuke from the Bush administration).

Another example: "in Eritrea (where the governing party arrested 11 political opponents, has held them incommunicado and without charge, and defended its actions as being consistent with United States actions after September 11)." (Emphasis is added.)

While Congress and our courts ignore our own ghost prisoners, the Associated Press reported on July 13: "The International Red Cross . . . fears U.S. officials are holding terror suspects secretly in locations across the world. The Geneva Conventions on the conduct of warfare require the United States to give the Red Cross access to prisoners of war and other detainees."