AP Exclusive: ACLU seeks OAS probe of Padilla case

By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN

Published December 11, 2012 3:25pm ET

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AP Exclusive: ACLU seeks OAS probe of Padilla case — FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2006 file photo, Jose Padilla, center, is escorted to a waiting police vehicle by federal marshals near downtown Miami. The American Civil Liberties Union says it will ask the OAS' human rights commission to investigate the U.S. government for allegedly violating the rights of convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla by labeling him an "enemy combatant" a decade ago and subjecting him to interrogation that amounted to torture, including sleep and sensory deprivation in solitary confinement. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter, File) | J. Pat Carter

NEW YORK (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union says it will ask the Organization of American States’ human rights commission to investigate the U.S. government for allegedly violating the rights of convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla by labeling him an “enemy combatant” a decade ago and subjecting him to interrogation that amounted to torture, including sleep and sensory deprivation in solitary confinement.

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