Meanwhile the Bush administration admitted it would not give the International Red Cross access to a group of prisoners being held at secret locations around the world. The White House maintains the men being detained are not prisoners of war and thus not guaranteed any rights under the Geneva Conventions. The International Red Cross criticized the decision.

• Jakob Kellenberger: “We have said it’s for us a major concern, the undisclosed detention, we want to have access there, to gather information and have access, and only once we have access to the people, we can in fact make a judgment in which legal framework we have to situate those people. Only once we have access to the people, we can know which legal framework is applicable to the person.”