TEHRAN (Press TV) -- Two UN special rapporteurs say that they plan to investigate secret detention centers used by the CIA in its counter-terrorism campaign.

“We call on all governments to cooperate, not just in clarifying the facts, but in ensuring that such secret detention centers will no longer be used in the future,” Manfred Nowak, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture said on Tuesday.
Nowak and Martin Scheinin, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-terrorism, will study locations alleged to have hosted such secret detention centers, including U.S. military bases.
The detention and interrogation program of the Central Intelligence Agency was authorized under a classified September 17, 2001 presidential order.
After years of refusing to deny or confirm the existence of the Presidential Order on Detention Facilities Abroad, in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the U.S. government acknowledged its existence in 2006.
It has refused to make the document public, however, or even provide it to members of Congress.
Human rights advocates state that secret detention, otherwise known as enforced disappearances, violates a host of human rights norms.
It prevents detainees from asserting the right to judicial and administrative remedies for arbitrary detention and violation of the right to liberty and security of the person.
It enables detaining authorities to expect impunity for acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and violation of rights to life and to fair and public trial.
However, it seems that change really is in the air in the United States, since the Obama team has signaled that they want to adopt a more civilized approach in contrast to the Bush administration's flippant attitude toward human rights.