“US Sent Guantanamo Detainees Home to Torture in Russia”
Carroll Bogert is associate director of Human Rights Watch and author of a report on Russia’s treatment of ex-Guantanamo detainees.
In one of the most comprehensive investigations ever conducted on “diplomatic assurances,” Bogert has documented in the report just how unreliable such promises are.
In her audio feature, she presents what the US State Department knew about Russia before the government returned the former prisoners to that country, and speaks on the treatment faced by a few who were sent back in March 2004.
Photographs of Rasul Kudaev, before and after he was detained, circulated widely on the internet.

© 2005 RFE/RL

© 2006 RFE/RL