D.C. Circuit Orders Preservation of Torture Evidence
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered the Bush administration to preserve any evidence that may show that Majid Khan, a legal U.S. resident currently held in Guantanamo Bay, was tortured during the course of his three years in secret CIA detention, the AP reported.
Khan’s attorneys alleged in a 25-page motion that ample proof exists that their client has been tortured, although intelligence officials have blacked out major portions of the filing.
The former Baltimore resident’s attorneys requested the order after the CIA admitted to destroying videotapes of two other Guantanamo detainees who had spent years in secret CIA detention.
The three judge panel gave the government until December 20 to respond to the accusations of torture.