Details of Guantanamo Detentions Emerge (Some Torture Info OK To Use)

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- Recent legal cases have penetrated the secrecy of the Bush administration's treatment of terrorism detainees, revealing that foreigners who aided al-Qaida can be held indefinitely even if that help was unintentional or evidence of it was produced by torture.

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Only two detainees have been released by the Combatant Status Review Tribunals the Pentagon set up in response to one of two June decisions on detainees by the Supreme Court. One of the rulings opened the door for foreigners detained as enemy combatants to challenge their imprisonment at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

With more than 510 hearings completed, the military panels have repeatedly ordered continued detention.

"So far, it's a disaster" for detainees seeking release, said Eugene Fidell, a Washington attorney who specializes in military law. "The due process has been illusory."

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Though denying there has been torture at Guantanamo, Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Brian Boyle acknowledged the military panels would consider evidence gathered by torture in foreign countries even though such statements have been barred from U.S. courts for 70 years because of unreliability.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-guantanamo-detainees,0,1637769.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[GetTheRightVote]

1. This is a sad day in US history when justice is not served even here

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[omulcol]

2. A Sad Day Indeed ...

Stories are emerging of an absolute horror inside Guantanamo prison. Accounts of illegal administering of unknown drug injections, doctors monitoring possible side effects ... and of the terrible mental / physical torture - and of course - the murders.

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Britain: Freed Guantanamo Bay detainees detail beatings and abuse

By Richard Tyler
19 March 2004

Five innocent men were returned to Britain last week, after two yearsÕ illegal detention at the US concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The five areÑShafiq Rasul, Ruhal Ahmed and Asif Iqbal from Tipton, near Birmingham, Jamal al-Harith from Manchester and Tarek Dergoul from East London.

In an extensive interview with the Observer newspaper, the ÒTipton ThreeÓ provided a graphic account of the daily beatings, humiliation and abuse meted out to the 650 detainees by their US captors.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/guan-m19.shtml

Australian government aids and abets US torture

By Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
18 June 2004
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jun2004/gbay-18j.shtml

and ...

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=4456

[DBoon]

3. Didn't the Soviet Union use psychiatric drugs on political prisoners

Tell me again who won the cold war?

[Khephra]

4. Won?

With Russia in the state its in and most of the population wanting a return to the USSR, somehow I don't think it's over.