BBC NEWS | Americas | US accused over 'ghost detainees'

BBC NEWS | Americas | US accused over 'ghost detainees': "Human rights groups have asked the US to reveal the whereabouts of 39 people who have allegedly been held in secret CIA-run prisons.

A report compiled by six human rights groups listed the names of people who remain unaccounted for after having passed through US custody.

The groups urged the US to stop using secret prisons for terror suspects.

The US last year admitted the existence of such prisons in its 'war on terror' but said they were no longer in use.

President George W Bush said last September that all secret prison sites were 'empty'." Read complete post here.