A/HRC/13/42* page 46 their links with such suspects. Various sources have spoken of techniques involving physical and psychological means of coercion, including stress positions, extreme temperature changes, sleep deprivation, and “waterboarding” (means by which an interrogated person is made to feel as if drowning). With reference to the well-established practice of bodies such as the Human Rights Committee and the Committee against Torture, the Special Rapporteur concludes that these techniques involve conduct that amounts to a breach of the prohibition against torture and any form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. 105. Several of the 28 detainees who, according to Mr. Bradbury, were subjected to “enhanced techniques to varying degrees” were also “high value detainees”. Fourteen people were transferred from secret CIA custody in an undisclosed location to confinement at the Defense Department’s detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, as announced by President Bush on 6 September 2006.173 They were: • Abu Zubaydah (Palestinian), captured in Faisalabad, Pakistan, on 28 March 2002 • Ramzi bin al-Shibh (Yemeni), captured in Karachi, Pakistan, on 11 September 2002 • Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (Saudi), captured in the United Arab Emirates in October or November 2002 • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Pakistani), captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on 1 March 2003 • Mustafa al-Hawsawi (Saudi), captured with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on 1 March 2003 • Majid Khan (Pakistani), captured in Karachi, Pakistan, on 5 March 2003 • Waleed Mohammed bin Attash (Yemeni), also known as Khallad, captured in Karachi, Pakistan, on 29 April 2003 • Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali (Pakistani) also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, captured with Waleed bin Attash in Karachi, Pakistan, on 29 April 2003 • Mohammed Farik bin Amin (Malaysian), also known as Zubair, captured in Bangkok on 8 June 2003 • Riduan Isamuddin (Indonesian), also known as Hambali, also known as Encep Nuraman, captured in Ayutthaya, Thailand, on 11 August 2003 173 “President Discusses Creation of Military Commissions to Try Suspected Terrorists”, 6 September 2006, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/ 2006/09/20060906-3.html.

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