BBC (Tuesday): After Guantanamo (Return of British Detainees)

[Jack Rabbit]

From the BBC Online
Dated Tuesday January 25

After Guantanamo
By Brendan O'Neill

Two of the British prisoners returning to the UK from Guantanamo Bay reportedly spent 18 months in solitary confinement. What impact does being locked up all day, away from any other human beings, have on an individual's mind?

The four Britons still held by US forces at Guantanamo Bay are due back in the UK on Tuesday.

Feroz Abbasi, Martin Mubanga and Richard Belmar from London and Moazzam Begg from Birmingham were detained as part of the US-led War on Terror and have been held for nearly three years.

At least two of them were apparently held in solitary confinement, in small cells, apparently with no natural light, nothing to do or read, and nobody but the occasional guard to talk to.

For decades, the BBC has been a traditional source of news for those seeking information while living in lands deprived of a free and independent press. That is why this American living in the age of Bush and corporatism turns to the BBC Online.