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(After a bomb plot with links to Yemen at the end of 2009, he also chose to halt transfers there and most of the remaining prisoners are Yemeni).

All are Yemeni, and the administration for years cited instability in Yemen, where civil war continues today, as a reason to halt transfers to the Middle Eastern country.

Mr. Davies played down the idea that a decision by the Bank of China to halt transfers to North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank last week was a strong diplomatic signal by Beijing.

Members of the Afghanistan Human Rights Commission cited the coalition decision to halt transfers at the four additional Afghan prisons, and the access members were granted to the Afghan intelligence service's counterterrorism center, as evidence that the low-key approach was working, at least in some instances.

Although NATO has little capacity to monitor all the detention facilities that it sends detainees to, if it hears of abuses from the United Nations or from the International Committee of the Red Cross it will halt transfers immediately until the facility has been investigated and if necessary, the problems have been resolved.

Although Al Qaeda "still has a strong presence in Yemen, I believe it would be prudent to revisit the decision to halt transfers to Yemen and assess whether President Hadi's government, with appropriate assistance, would be able to securely hold detainees in Sana," she wrote.

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After seeing a draft of the report in September, Gen. John R. Allen, the NATO commander here in Afghanistan, halted transfers of those suspected of being insurgents to 16 of the facilities identified as sites where torture or abuse routinely took place.

The administration recently halted transfers to Yemen in the wake of the attempted bombing of an airplane bound for Detroit on Christmas — a plot believed to have been developed by an affiliate of Al Qaeda based in Yemen.

Even before the report was made public, General Allen halted transfers of detainees to all of the facilities named in the United Nations report because under international human rights law it is prohibited to transfer any detainee to a government where there are "substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture".