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Red Cross Says "Torture" Occurring At Guantanamo Bay

December 01 , 2004

The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the tactics used on prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the US military as "tantamount to torture," The New York Times reported this week. In June of this year, the Red Cross inspected the facilities at Guantanamo Bay and reported the US military used psychological and at times, physical coercion on prisoners.

The Red Cross refused to confirm or deny the NY Times report. However, a spokesman at the Pentagon confirmed the Red Cross report contains details the refer to "torture" reported by the Times.

Gen. Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, strongly dismissed the Red Cross allegations. “We certainly don’t think it’s torture,” Myers said.

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Chicago Sun Times:

But on Oct. 21, in Washington, D.C., U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that all the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have the right -- as the Supreme Court decided in June -- to American lawyers with whom they can speak without the government listening in. So far, lawyer-client confidentiality has been almost entirely forbidden there, including with those nonlawyer ''personal representatives.''
This crude attempt by the government to skip the Supreme Court is not surprising in view of attitudes of key administration officials long before these fake proceedings at Guantanamo Bay started. Dick Cheney called the detainees ''the worst of a very bad lot . . . devoted to killing millions of Americans.''
Mr. Cheney, where is the presumption of innocence?
And Donald Rumsfeld said they were ''among the most dangerous, best-trained vicious killers on the face of the Earth.'' But the overwhelming majority have not been charged with any crime. If they're so heinous, then charging them should have been a swift, clear process.
Instead, as Jaffer says, ''Guantanamo remains a legal black hole.''
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