[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Guantánamo detainees: 4 years without justice
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Guantánamo detainees: 4 years without justice
Four years ago, the USA transferred the first "war on terror" detainees -
hooded and shackled - to the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base,
Cuba.
As the detention regime at Guantánamo Bay enters its fifth year, around 500
people from 35 countries continue to be held without charge or trial. Denied
their rights under international law, there are mounting allegations of torture
and ill-treatment of detainees at the camp.
Detainees effectively remain in a legal black hole, many with no access to any
court, legal counsel, or family visits. Many are subjected to confinement in
small cells for up to 24 hours a day with minimal opportunity for exercise.
Detainees are often kept in isolation, sometimes for months, as punishment for
the infraction of strict camp rules. Several of the detainees have attempted
suicide. Most recently Bahraini Jumah al Dossari attempted suicide, reportedly
for the tenth time. Other detainees have in desperation embarked on hunger
strikes, being kept alive, sometimes against their will, through painful force
feeding procedures.
Appalling conditions, allegations of torture and other ill-treatment, detention
of individuals in Guantánamo for up to four years without justice: these are
alarming violations of human rights. US plans to try detainees by military
commission will bring even more injustice. These commissions are not
independent and allow statements extracted under torture or coercion, and
hearsay evidence.
Guantánamo detainees must be released, unless charged with recognizable
criminal offences and brought to fair trial.
Take action!
Write to US President George W. Bush demanding that he close down the detention
facility at Guantánamo Bay, and either charge and try the detainees in line
with international standards, or release them.
Action works: Since AI started highlighting specific cases of Guantánamo
detainees, 15 of them have been released from US detention. Of those detainees
transferred to their home countries, 7 remain in detention and 8 have been
released.
Dear Mr President,
It is now four years since the first detainees were transferred to the
detention facility at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Detainees in Guantánamo Bay are held in prolonged indefinite detention, which
violates a fundamental legal principle: that anyone detained has the right to
be promptly brought before an independent judicial officer to challenge the
lawfulness of their detention. You have repeatedly asserted that the USA
strives to "defend and extend a vision of human dignity" and "uphold the rule
of law". For the detainees at Guantánamo Bay these words ring hollow.
I call on you to close the detention facility and to ensure that all those held
in Guantánamo are immediately released if they are not to be charged and
brought to trial in line with standards of fairness. The military commissions
violate several provisions of international treaties to which the USA is a
state party and cannot provide fair trials in line with international standards
They are fundamentally flawed and should be abandoned immediately.
Many detainees in Guantánamo come from countries which the US government itself
has condemned for human rights violations. I therefore call on you to ensure
that the USA will not transfer them to a country where they may face further
human rights violations.
Yours sincerely,
Please send appeals to:
George W. Bush
The President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington DC 20500
USA
Fax: +1 202 456 2461
E-mail: president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Please note that this address has been responding erratically and is
occasionally unavailable. Email page: http://www.whitehouse.gov/webmail
Salutation: Dear Mr President
10 January 2006 - AMR 51/004/2006 - WA 01/06
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