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| Leaked Red Cross report alleges torture at Guantanamo |
| 2004-12-04 |
| The lawyer for an Australian inmate at Guantanamo Bay says a leaked version of a Red Cross report alleging torture at the prison camp is consistent with inmate statements. The New York Times newspaper published leaked details of the report, which accuses the American military of beating some detainees, as well as using physical coercion described as "tantamount to torture". Australians David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib are among the 550 men held at the facility. The report, which the Red Cross is yet to confirm, says some prison doctors violated medical ethics by helping plan interrogations. Stephen Kenny, the lawyer for Australian detainee David Hicks, told the ABC's AM program that the accusations were consistent with previous reports. "What it does is confirm the treatment and the allegations that have previously been made by not only David to us, but by others who have been released," he said. Mr Kenny says it appears the US has set an unwelcome new standard in the treatment of prisoners. "I know from the people I've spoken in the International Red Cross is that they say other countries where we know their human rights records are appalling, all they say to the Red Cross is 'well we are just following the rule of Guantanamo Bay, we're just doing what the Americans are doing'," he said. Hicks's father Terry says the report backs up his claim that his son was tortured. Mr Hicks says he was told of the tortures when he visited his son in August. "He was subjected to sound, cold, strobe lights and stress and duress tactics in Guantanamo Bay. He did say he endured 10 hour lots of beatings in Afghanistan," Mr Hicks said. The Pentagon says it is not mistreating detainees at Guantanamo Bay. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher has defended the US Government's treatment of detainees. "They're treated humanely and in accordance with standard international, relevant international practice," he said. |
| Posted by:God Save The World |
| #5 And the US RC played three card Monty with the 9/11 monies, so my RC donations just go to the local chapter when local disasters hit and to supply local RC teams deployed in support of national disasters. |
| Posted by: Don 2004-12-04 11:41:27 PM |
| #4 The American Red Thingy does supply some cash to the International Red Thingy, but withholds a portion in protest of the International idiots not recognizing the Magen David Adom. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-12-04 11:25:54 PM |
| #3 Just a clarification: The American Red Cross and the Int'l Red Thingy are absolutely separate entities. Period. Full Stop. The Int'l bunch is just as you imply, FB. The American bunch spends every dime on American needs - nothing is shared with the Int'l asshats, no money or resources. Believe me, I had to eat some crow when I found out - I was painting them both with the same brush. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-04 10:40:07 PM |
| #2 He was subjected to sound, cold, strobe lights and stress and duress tactics Sounds like a night at the local disco. But I see where muslims would be aghast when the soap bubble machine is turned on. I allege Mr. Kenny Sr. is not the father of lawyer Kenny. Of course, I as a layman without the fancy powdered wig, is expected to actually produce some evidence. So lawyer Kenny, show us the evidence of torture. Show us the missing limbs, the skin ripped from their faces, the chopped off ears and fingers, the bloody pulp that used to be their faces, the videos of them pleading for their lives and their severed heads. What's that fancy lawyerin' term for, you know, show us the body? |
| Posted by: ed 2004-12-04 10:39:16 PM |
| #1 Tell them to shut up or they will be sent to Pakistan were real torture is practiced. The Red Cross will never get another dime of my money. All the pure sheite I have heard over the years would be enough but this "leak" tops it. They should be banned from contact with any prisoners held by the US anywhere including Saddam and kicked out of our country for giveing aid and comfort to our enemies. |
| Posted by: FlameBait 2004-12-04 10:33:00 PM |