2002, the first detainees from Afghanistan arrived at the prison in the US Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba. In the succeeding five years, Guantanamo has symbolized to the and domestic law, and the development of a policy of inhumane treatment and use of torture. These claims have been linked to military and CIA operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and in an unknown number of secret prisons.
January 11, 2002. After five years, no Guantanamo detainee has been convicted of a criminal offense. According to an Bring Justice," the majority of the detainees held in Guantanamo will not face military commissions.
"Only estimated - will be subject to the commissions." Finally, after more than two years of detention, between August 2004 and March 2005, Combatant military officers, reviewed the cases of 558 detainees. However, the detainees had no access to lawyers or to secret evidence used by the CSRT.
The CSRT could use coerced evidence. The CSRTs judged 520 detainees to be "enemy What is an enemy combatant? The general partners during an armed conflict.
" But a September 5, 2006, combatant: "For the purposes of the war on terrorism, the term Unlawful Enemy Combatant is defined to include, but is not limited to, an individual who is or was part of or its coalition partners." International, in an analysis of 500 detainees, a remarkably low number, only 5 percent, or about 25 detainees, were captured by US forces. Eighty-six percent, or about 430 detainees, were arrested by Pakistani forces or the Afghan a reward of thousands of dollars.
The other 9 percent are not discussed in the Amnesty report. Many were sold to the United States to even scores or just for the money. Anyone sale to US forces.
The oldest detainee shipped to Guantanamo was 75 and the youngest 10. Once at Guantanamo, they remained for years because of political leadership at the Department of Defense, the December 18, 2006, almost half - about 379 of the 775 detainees - have been released after years in prison. They told why they had been detained.
About 396 detainees from 35 four and a half years. (When President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act (MCA) into law, he said that the MCA authorizes the CIA secret-prison program to continue. He detention facilities, conditions of confinement, and Saudi Arabia were released on December 14, 2006, after King in Guantanamo.
More detainees were released on December 17, went to Libya, and one to Bangladesh. This resulted in thirty-four detainees being released in three days. The news and 85 detainees, whom the US government has determined are eligible for transfer or release, are still being held at old when they were taken to Guantanamo.
The youngest were 10, 12, and 13 when they were "captured." At the end of 2006, four of these juveniles still are detained. They have spent one-fourth of their lives in Guantanamo.
There was a fifth, but he was one of three detainees who committed suicide in June 2006. More than 40 detainees have attempted suicide, and up to 200 detainees have staged hunger strikes Incredibly, at doghouse, the US Congress in October 2006 again trusted and time; denies the right to a lawyer of choice, and denies the right to challenge and present evidence. The MCA allows the admission of evidence coerced by cruel, inhuman or degrading While co-authoring memos on torture, presidential legal advisor Alberto Gonzales, now attorney general, advised President Bush in January 2002 that a coming from Afghanistan, and imprisoning the detainees outside the United States, would be to make it more Act.
The administration's "gloves off" attitude toward interrogations resulted in inhumane treatment in Bagram, Kandahar, and other prisons in Afghanistan, and later in Guantanamo. That abusive environment led to painful incidents at Abu Ghraib, Iraq, as Guantanamo prison detainees if the acts were committed before December 31, service on active duty and in the US Army Reserves, and as a US diplomat for 16 years, I firmly believe that there must the Pentagon, the CIA, the Justice Department, or the White House. Speaking as a military officer, I believe our criminal acts.
Our soldiers and officers are taught what behavior is legal and what is not. I would think that the same distinction also is taught to CIA personnel. When the who knowing commit criminal acts, they undermine the "order and discipline" of the military and of the CIA.
Ultimately international community, for the sake of our national spirit and soul, and for the integrity of the US military, the prison in Guantanamo must be closed. The US military must be crimes, as the courts have done in the past. For the United in the area of human rights, the legal process for those fair.
The "Guantanamo process" is neither. I call on the new civilian legal system, to abolish the Military Commissions Act, to designate the federal courts to hear the cases, and to close Guantanamo. On January 11, 2007, the fifth Guantanamo, organizations all over the world will call for Guantanamo to be closed.
For the sake of our integrity and conscience, each one of us must take action: Organize vigils, show the movie "The Road to Guantanamo" or have to end torture, stop violations of international law, and CLOSE GUANTANAMO! (Check for Colonel Ann Wright, retired, spent 29 diplomat serving in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She resigned from the US Department of State in - Italy's antiquities prosecutor, Maurizio Fiorilli, has become the darling of the media in the past year helping to persuade the American public, and particularly the art world, to rethink the ethics of holding onto Italy's cultural patrimony with words like: "Until now we have dreamed, we have slept.
Now it is time to wake up." Words meant to be heard back home in Italy, perhaps, but shot around the world via the Los Angeles Times. See.
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