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| Spanish judge starts Guantanamo torture probe |
| 2009-04-30 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] A Spanish judge started a criminal investigation on Wednesday into alleged torture of detainees in the U.S. base at Guantanamo. Judge Baltasar Garzon, who once tried to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, will probe the "perpetrators, the instigators, the necessary collaborators and accomplices" to crimes of torture at the prison at the U.S. naval base in southern Cuba, he said in ruling The judge based his decision on statements by Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed, known as the "Spanish Taliban" and three other former Guantanamo detainees -- a Moroccan, a Palestinian and a Libyan -- who alleged they had suffered torture at the camp. "It seems that the documents declassified by the U.S. administration mentioned by the media have revealed what was previously a suspicion -- the existence of an authorized and systematic program of torture" at Guantanamo and other prisons including that in Bagram in Afghanistan, Garzon said |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 He should be on a |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-04-30 19:39 |
| #1 Baltazar is a Spanish Attention Whore, not a judge. He should be on a no-fly list worldwide |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-04-30 19:20 |