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No Lawyers or Reporters Allowed into Guantanamo Prison

Havana, June 16/2006 (ACN) The US military has prohibited visits by lawyers and journalists to the naval base that Washington maintains in the illegally-occupied Cuban territory of Guantanamo.

The prohibition came after three detainees committed suicide in the detention center set up in the US military facility.

According to the New York-based non-governmental Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the restriction of visits by legal representatives was imposed coinciding with a similar measure not allowing reporters into the prison camp, PL reports on Friday.

The US dailies the Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald and The Charlotte Observer all protested about the measure on Thursday. The prohibition was described by The Los Angeles Times editor, Dough Frantz, as an attitude from the Stone Age, which only increases doubts about what is really happening in the prison camp.

Meanwhile, CCR lawyer Barbara Olshansky said that her colleagues had suspected that visits to the area would be suddenly prohibited, though they would file suit at a Washington federal court in order to have access to their clients in the detention center.

Naval base authorities said that the troops were supporting an enquiry by the US Navy’s Criminal Investigation Service on the three recent suicides and so they could not receive visitors, said Olshansky.

 

 

 

 

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