Challenge to Guantanamo practices
From BBC News A court in the US has been asked to ban the practice of force-feeding detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The case is being brought on behalf of Mohammed Bawazir, a Yemeni who has been held there since 2002. The action is the first test for a new law explicitly outlawing torture of […]
From BBC News
A court in the US has been asked to ban the practice of force-feeding detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The case is being brought on behalf of Mohammed Bawazir, a Yemeni who has been held there since 2002.
The action is the first test for a new law explicitly outlawing torture of terrorism suspects, which President George W Bush signed in December.
In a BBC interview conducted through a lawyer, a Kuwaiti detainee described force-feeding as tantamount to torture.
Rest of Article HERE
Over here in the UK former residents of the jail have now conducted interviews and describe in detail the goings on withing the jail away from the outside world. I have seen clips of the program and some of it is ‘eye opening’. I’ll comment on the program once I have seen it in full.
