Report of the International Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights to the Special OSCE Meeting on the Prevention of Torture, Vienna, 6-7 November 2003. The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is a non-governmental organization that seeks to promote compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act. This report describes problems related to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in ten OSCE participating states, including the United States. According to the report, the U.S. in the "war against terrorism" has raised serious suspicions about practices that may amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. The holding of terrorist suspects incommunicado for indefinite periods gives rise to serious concern. Also, according to the report, the U.S. military is failing to conduct proper investigations into civilian deaths resulting from the excessive or indiscriminate use of force by its members.