11. India announced Thursday that it will allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to regularly visit detainees and restore contact between them and their families. 12. India will allow the Red Cross to visit detainees in jails and detention centers in strife-torn Jammu-Kashmir state, a government official said Saturday. 13. Journalists were not allowed to visit the detainees. 14. Relatives of some of the detainees were later allowed to head to the camp, but it was not immediately clear whether they visited the detainees. 15. Requests by the group to visit political detainees were rejected, Jirbawi said. 16. Red Cross workers who visited detainees in Camp X-ray Friday night said there were no signs indicating a move was about to happen. 17. Selome said the International Committee of the Red Cross would be allowed to visit the detainees before they are deported. 18. Shalikashvili, who met with Izetbegovic in Sarajevo, said he also requested that the International Committee of the Red Cross be allowed to visit the detainees. 19. The detainees have been visited by U.N. police every morning and regularly by other international organizations, including the ICRC and European Union monitors. 20. The government announced Thursday that it will allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to regularly visit detainees and restore contact between them and their families. |