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International | Police State and PrisonsGuantanamo conditions 'worsening'
Conditions for detainees at the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay are deteriorating, with the majority held in solitary confinement, a report says. Amnesty International said the often harsh and inhumane conditions at the camp were "pushing people to the edge".
It called for the facility to be closed and for plans for "unfair" military commission trials to be abandoned. Many of the 385 inmates have been held for five years or more, unable to mount a legal challenge to their detention. "While the United States has an obligation to protect its citizens... that does not relieve the United States from its responsibilities to comply with human rights," the report said. Statements by the Bush administration that these men are 'enemy combatants,' 'terrorists' or 'very bad people' do not justify the complete lack of due process rights," the group said. Amnesty reiterated its call for detainees at the prison camp in Cuba - many of whom are suspected Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters - to be released or charged and sent to trial. 'Already in despair' The report, published on Thursday, said about 300 detainees are now being held at a new facility - known as Camp 5, Camp 6 and Camp Echo - comparable to "super-max" high security units in the US. More http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6526589.stm
§Gitmo Conditions Worsening: Amnesty
CAIRO — Conditions in the US detention facility in Guantanamo are worsening with the sweeping majority of detainees being held in cruel isolation, Amnesty International said in a new reported issued on Thursday, April 5.
"It appears that detainees are being placed in extreme lock-down conditions not because of their individual behavior but because of harsher camp operating procedures," reads the report posted on Amnesty's website. "A new facility that opened in December 2006, known as Camp Six, has created even harsher and apparently more permanent conditions of extreme isolation and sensory deprivation." The report, "USA: Cruel and inhuman – Conditions of isolation for detainees in Guant?namo Bay", says 165 detainees have since been transferred to the new facility. It notes that a further 100 detainees are being held in solitary confinement in Camp 5, another maximum security facility. Twenty others are being held in solitary confinement in Camp Echo, where conditions have been described by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as "extremely harsh." More http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1175751842332&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout |