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Adelaide lawyer Stephen Kenny, who represented Australian David Hicks during the early part of his detention at the military prison in Cuba, told a law conference today 500 hours of videotape of prisoners at the US base existed.
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Top U.S. Navy officials were so outraged at abusive interrogation techniques being used at the Guantánamo Bay prison in late 2002 that they considered removing navy interrogators from the operation, according to a portion of a recent Pentagon report that has not been made public.
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Three years after the United States opened its prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, 65 detainees have been handed over to their home countries but none has been convicted of any crime.
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The abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail came about with the introduction of methods used at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba that treated detainees "like dogs,'' Brigadier General Janis Karpinski said.
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Statements by former British prisoners at Guantanamo Bay over the past week provide further damning proof that the sadistic torture used at Abu Ghraib in Iraq originated in Afghanistan and the Pentagon’s infamous military prison in Cuba. The declarations were followed by new evidence that Australian detainees in Guantanamo Bay—David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib—were beaten and abused.
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"I'm still honestly most worried about the fact that there would be a large category of unchecked and uncheckable actions dealing with the detention of individuals that are being held in a place where America has the power to do everything." said Justice Stephen Breyer.
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Three British prisoners released last week from Guantanamo Bay have revealed the full extent of British government involvement in the American detention camp condemned by law lords and the Court of Appeal as a 'legal black hole'.
After more than 200 interrogation sessions each, with the CIA, FBI, Defence Intelligence Agency, MI5 and MI6, America has been forced to admit its claims that the three were terrorists who supported al-Qaeda had no foundation."
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Wendy Patton, U.S. advocacy director of Human Rights Watch — "Overall, the chief concern that we have about conditions is the devastating psychological effect of the prolonged, indefinite detention on the detainees," Patton told Socialist Worker. "I just saw a statement from a military official from Guantanamo last week saying that there have been 34 suicide attempts to date that have been recorded at Guantanamo. And one of the former detainees interviewed by Human Rights Watch in Pakistan confirmed that he had attempted suicide three times."
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Reporters were presented with a statement to sign as they prepared to board a flight chartered by the military from Jacksonville, Fla., on Oct. 7. A new paragraph was added to earlier requirements: “ Asking questions or perspectives about ongoing and/or future operations or investigations can result in restricted access on Gitmo, removal from the installation, and/or revocation of DoD (Department of Defense) press credentials.”
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The US military has admitted that children aged 16 years and younger are among the detainees being interrogated at its prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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The US military clashed with British journalists yesterday at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay after inmates shouted to a BBC Panorama team who had been invited to tour the maximum security camp. Detainees shouted that they wanted to tell their story and the US soldiers immediately halted the tour, ordering everyone out.
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The US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death row and execution chamber. Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its boundaries, without a jury and without right of appeal.
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“Remember, even the worst Nazis got a trial.”
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