21.   The International Committee of the Red Cross was still awaiting security clearances to visit detainees.

22.   The military government has refused to allow officials of Amnesty International to visit political detainees, increasing concerns about their conditions, a human rights official said Thursday.

23.   The Red Cross said it had been unable to visit some detainees held by Bosnian Serbs since February.

24.   Todorovic began visiting the detainees late last month.

25.   Vincent Lusser, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said delegates were being allowed to visit detainees at the Ofer military camp.

26.   The report did note some positive steps in the region including authorization from the Palestinian Authority for the international Red Cross to visit detainees the Palestinians are holding.

27.   Lawyers from the Legal Aid Institute and the parents of two of the actvists were allowed to visit the detainees late Friday.

28.   The Foreign Office said a team of British officials were visiting the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, but would not confirm that intelligence officers were among them.