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UN Reports:
   
Concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee, 15 September 2006.
Concluding observations of the Commitee against torture, 25 July 2006.
Situation of detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Report of the UN Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers; the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief; and the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, 27 February 2006.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Martin Scheinin
Mission to the United States of America, Addendum, 22 November 2007.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Doudou Diène, on Mission to the United States (A/HRC/11/36/Add.3), 28 April 2009
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, on Mission to the United States (A/HRC/11/2/Add.5), 26 May 2009
Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding Observation to the US Report Submitted under the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (CRC/C/OPAC/USA/CO/1), 25 June 2008
Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding Observation to the US Report Submitted under the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (CRC/C/OPSC/USA/CO/1), 25 June 2008
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Alleged violations of international law
HRW, "Double Jeopardy: CIA Renditions to Jordan", April 2008
Amnesty International, USA: Government opposes habeas corpus review for any Bagram detainees; reveals ‘enhanced’ administrative review procedures, 16 September 2009
Human Rights First, Arbitrary Justice: Trials of Bagram and Guantánamo Detainees in Afghanistan, 2008
   
   
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