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New testimonies of torture in Guantánamo

Taken from Granma International

LONDON, January 10, 2006.—An international human rights organization has revealed fresh details of atrocities perpetrated by the United States in its prison in Guantánamo, an illegally occupied territory where the empire has been holding some 500 prisoners for four years without trial, AFP reports.

In Guantánamo, some 500 men have been treated with a contempt that nobody should be forced to endure, says the London-based organization on the fourth anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo camp, whose closure is once again being demanded.

The 500 prisoners of 35 nationalities in Guantánamo were mostly detained in Afghanistan in October 2001 by the U.S. authorities, who refer to them as enemy combatants.

According to the exposé U.S. soldiers have been seen shoving the heads of prisoners in toilet bowls and then releasing the flush, almost to the point of drowning them. Blows were inflicted by U.S. soldiers on prisoners who were sick or wounded, and in front of doctors and nurses.

The soldiers tortured the detainees in the name of the law. “There are too many incidents to mention or list,” said one of the witnesses, who added that, in Guantánamo, “I was threatened that I would be raped…, that my family would be attacked, my daughter kidnapped, and that I would be killed by (U.S.) spies if I returned to Saudi Arabia.”

TRIALS OF U.S. PRISONERS RESTART

U.S. military tribunals reinitiated trials for alleged war crimes against two prisoners on the naval base occupied by the United States in Guantánamo. One is a Yemeni accused of protecting Osama bin Laden and the other a Canadian accused of killing a U.S. army doctor, Reuters announced.

 

 

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