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Archbishop Rowan Williams Criticizes US Prison in Guantanamo

Havana, March 6, 2006 (CNA) The Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Anglican Church, Rowan Williams, criticized the prison that the United States operates in the illegally occupied territory at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Granma newspaper reported.

Archbishop Williams said the detention center is a tremendous legal anomaly, calling it a dangerous precedent for the international community, reported Prensa Latina. Nearly 500 persons have been held for several years at the US Guantanamo Naval Base without charges or a right to a trial.

The scandal has finally forced the US authorities to make public a list with the names of those detained at that facility, among which is British citizen Feroz Ali Abbasi, of Turkish origin, who denounced in writing the severe way he has been treated at the Guantanamo prison camp.

Meanwhile the Associated Press news agency highlighted that many of those persons detained at the US Naval Base, have lost hope of one day leaving that installation alive, according to the transcriptions made public by the US military.

Ahamed Abdul Aziz, has been kept at the US military installation for more than three years, and has been subjected to interrogation more than 50 times, without having received any formal accusation for crimes.

!Here we are in a grave,” Abdul Aziz told his attorneys, reflecting on the lack of hope that many of the 490 prisoners held in Guantanamo feel. Ninety-eight percent of them have never being accused of anything.

 

 

 

 

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