 Awwwwwwww...
| Got to you too, huh? Just choked me up ... |
TUNIS (Reuters) - Two Tunisians who spent five years in the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay were released and sent home only to be mistreated by their own government, Human Rights Watch said.
Aw, geez, how...ironic, huh, boys?| It's like rain on your wedding day. |
Tunisia denied abusing Abdullah al-Hajji Ben Amor and Lotfi Lagha after their return on June 18, saying they were protected by a law forbidding the inhuman treatment of prisoners.
Yep, sez so right here. See?| It's a free ride, when you've already paid. |
| Old Soviet Union had a constitution providing for free speech, if I recall ... |
HRW, an international monitoring group of busybodies, cited al-Hajji's lawyer as saying he was slapped, threatened with the rape of his wife and daughters, deprived of sleep and coerced to sign papers he could not read as he needed new glasses. He then spent six weeks in solitary confinement. In early August he was moved to a cell with other prisoners while awaiting a trial on September 26. Hajji was convicted in absentia in 1995 for taking part in a terrorist organisation operating abroad. Lagha, also imprisoned alone, saw a lawyer seven weeks after arriving in Tunisia and told him he was threatened with torture, HRW said.
They could go on a hunger strike I suppose. But I doubt the Tunisians would give a shit about force feeding them to keep them alive so that'd probably last about six hours...
"The men have told those who visit them that things are so bad they would rather be in Guantanamo," HRW said in a report dated September 5.| It's the good advice, that you just didn't take. |
Sorry, boys. Too late. How's the food in Tunisian prison?
It said the U.S. was well aware of torture and unfair trials in Tunisia and could not rely on the diplomatic assurances given by the Tunisian authorities before the men were sent home. So...if we keep them in Guantanamo we're violating their human rights. But if we send them home to Tunisia we're...violating their human rights? Maybe HRW could send us a list of their leadership and we could send these guys to their houses? I'm sure they'll make marvelous guests at the cocktail parties...| And who would've thought? It figures. |
Tunisia said the two men were held in ordinary conditions and were not subjected to solitary confinement. "Mr Lagha and Mr Hajji were not mistreated.... They have both enjoyed all their rights as part of the due process of law," an official source in Tunisia said.
Hey, they're still breathing...
| It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife |
Ten Tunisians remain at Guantanamo, and at least eight of them were convicted in absentia in Tunisia of crimes, according to HRW. It's meeting the man of my dreams, and then meeting his beautiful wife
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And I'll bet ya can't wait to get home, right, guys? |