Another Briton alleges torture at Guantanamo

[dArKeR]

`INHUMAN CONDITIONS': A second British man who spent two years at the US Navy's base in Cuba has made troubling allegations about his treatment there

AP , LONDON
Sunday, Mar 14, 2004,Page 6

One of the British men released from Guantanamo Bay said through his lawyer Friday that US authorities beat him, interrogated him at gunpoint and subjected him to "inhuman conditions" during his detention.

Louise Christian, Tarek Dergoul's attorney, said his family believed his experiences had damaged him psychologically.

He was among five Britons returned home from the US Navy base in Cuba and released this week.

He is the second of the group to publicly describe conditions at the camp, where former fellow detainee Jamal al-Harith said earlier he had suffered beatings, humiliation and interrogation for up to 12 hours at a time. Families of all the freed men, who were not charged, have said they were innocents caught up in the US war on terrorism.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/03/14/2003102418

[tlcandie]

1. So, will the trials against the US go forward or get squelched?

If the lid can ever truly come off of this nightmare...I'm sure our hearts will be appalled at the horrific things that have and continue to go on in that place!

Powell's remarks are condescending and blatantly false! The US is above reproach, eh? Bah!!! :puke:

[jus_the_facts]

2. goes on in jails all over the place here as well...gitmo isn't unusual....

.....I know this goes on in jails and prisons right here in Louisiana...from people who've been locked up....not bein' allowed proper council...bein' kept for almost a YEAR without bein' sentenced...whatchin' people get harrassed...beaten...raped...while ght guards laugh and let it take place....this is a reality for thousands of people encarerated right here in the shitty ol'USA...the ignorant who talk about how jails are hotels and such haven't ever seen what I've seen...the deplorable roach and rat infested HELLHOLES where the bugs are eatin' your half rotten meal before it ever gets to your cell...it's REAL and it's happening RIGHT now to many many Americans...for such damning crimes as failure to pay child support...a dime bag of weed...or gettin' caught stealin' a pack of cigarettes......and lest we forget what happened to Susan McDugal?! :evilfrown:

on edit....also some of these places are makin' a PROFIT...lot's of privatized prisons down here too.....off MINORS...Paul Wellstone came down here to make a stink about one of these VERY prisons once too!:(