 Amnesty International has renewed its call for the United States to close its Guantanamo Bay detention facility and try or release the prisoners held there. "The US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is condemning thousands across the world to a life of suffering, torment and stigmatisation," the London-based rights group said on Monday in a statement accompanying a new report. "Five hundred men from around 35 nationalities are detained in Guantanamo. Dozens are currently on hunger strike and there have been numerous suicide attempts. None of them have had the lawfulness of their detention reviewed in a court of law."
| Tell you what: If the 72nd Heavy Lawyers' Division takes Teheran in the next way, we'll let them decide what to do with the prisoners they take. |
Amnesty Americas Programme Director Susan Lee said: "Despite widespread international condemnation, the US authorities continue in their attempts to strip all detainees of their right to challenge their detention in US courts."
| They're not arrested. They're detained. Interned for the duration of the war. We don't have any particular obligation other than feeding and sheltering them. They have no legal rights. They irregular combatants, who don't fall under the Geneva Conventions. |
The rights group demanded that the US administration publish a list of all "war on terror" detainees being held at Guantanamo and elsewhere, and try or release the prisoners. Citing complaints from inmates of mistreatment and abuse, Amnesty also appealed to Washington to "close Guantanamo and open up all US detention facilities to independent scrutiny", and to investigate allegations of torture.
| I think they should close Guantanamo, move all the inmates therein to Bikini Atoll or someplace very similar, and not say another word on the subject. |
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