Red Cross blasts Guantanamo

[Nottingham]

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Red Cross blasts Guantanamo


Guantanamo security is especially tight after recent spy fears
A top Red Cross official has broken with tradition by publicly attacking conditions at the US military base on Cuba where al-Qaeda suspects are being held.
Christophe Girod - the senior Red Cross official in Washington - said it was unacceptable that the 600 detainees should be held indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay without legal safeguards.

The Red Cross is the only organisation with access to the detainees.

His criticism came as a group of American former judges, diplomats and military officers called on the US Supreme Court to examine the legality of holding the foreign nationals for almost two years, without trial, charge or access to lawyers.

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"One cannot keep these detainees in this pattern, this situation, indefinitely," he said during a visit to the US naval base where the Taleban and al-Qaeda suspects are being held.

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:bounce: This is awful

[DuctapeFatwa]

1. Which Dem candidates have pledged to free the people there?

I have been trying to find out more information on the positions of the candidates and the Democratic party, and haven't had any luck.

[JoFerret]

2. A very worthy quest...

..what do they think? Furthermore, where, and by whom, is the Bush admin being questioned on their justification for this abuse of basic rights? Time for some noise on this.

[DuctapeFatwa]

4. I am surprised that the candidates are all silent on this issue

Since it directly impacts on the national security of the United States and the safety of American citizens, I would think they would all be eager to make their positions known.

[bring_em_home_bush]

3. ~

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr

[Emillereid]

5. Here's a link to the BBC piece on Guantanamo Bay

Excellent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4905.htm