The group, Human Rights Watch, is asking President Bush to disclose the fates of all terror suspects held since 2001, including at least 16 it believes have been locked up in secret CIA facilities.
Human Rights Watch said the U.S. may have transferred the detainees to other countries that are cooperating with the CIA. The group worries that the detainees could have been returned to their home countries, including Syria, Algeria, Egypt or Libya, where torture is common.
In a letter to Bush on Monday, Joanne Mariner, director of Human Rights Watch's terrorism and counterterrorism program, said her organization recognizes some terror suspects may have committed crimes that merit incarceration. Yet "the decision to imprison such persons must be taken in accordance with legal processes," she said.
Rather than vanishing, they should be charged with crimes, she said.
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