Human Rights: The Axis Powers Reunite With New Friends

US Rejects Secret Detention Ban In France, nearly sixty countries signed a treaty Tuesday banning secret detention. The United States was not one of them. State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack refused to comment on whether US rejection was linked to its program of sending prisoners to secret jails overseas. Other governments to reject the treaty include Germany, Spain, Britain and Italy.

Source: Democracy Now, February 7, 2007